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Re:Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program by aikinai on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:02AM (#25135840)
How do people come up with these arbitrary rates? How is 30% anticompetitive and 15% okay? 30% was standard long before the App Store, so why does Apple have to lower it now that they're the most profitable app platform?
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Re:Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program by IshKebab on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:19AM (#25135946)
It's just consensus. 30% seems very large, 15% is tolerable.

I don't think anyone liked 30% before either but anyone that can get away with charging 30% is probably already in a monopoly position so nobody has ever been able to do anything about it. Apple are only change now because of the threat of a lawsuit.

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Re:Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program by viktorcode on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:43AM (#25136112)
In fact, in 2008 many people liked 30%. Especially those who used to pay ~50% for getting into a mobile carrier store.
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Re:Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program by latortuga on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:24AM (#25137734)
As someone who graduated from college in 2008 let me tell you that 30% sounded basically like highway robbery to me and soured me on Apple for a lot of years. I refused to buy anything Apple related because I viewed (and still do) that 30% as abusive.

Maybe folks in industry saw it differently but I definitely beg to differ.

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