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Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by mrkramer on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:15PM (#27240058)
>Apple/Google, who leverage OS API control into a tax on all activity, do nothing and get $1.50.

Except they offer you a channel for distribution, discoverability, promotion, rating and monetization of your app.

On Android you don't have to serve your app over Google Play you can distribute .apk file elsewhere and pay 0% fee but on iOS unfortunately you can not do that.

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Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by drannex on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:52PM (#27240943)
> Except they offer you a channel for distribution, discoverability, promotion, rating and monetization of your app.

Only because they don't allow you to do any of that yourself or allow for any alternatives.

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Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by mrkramer on Saturday May 22, 2021 @12:13PM (#27247914)
Read again what I wrote >On Android you don't have to serve your app over Google Play you can distribute .apk file elsewhere and pay 0% fee but on iOS unfortunately you can not do that.
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Re:Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces by kumarvvr on Friday May 21, 2021 @11:06PM (#27242999)
They offer all that, and also restrict others from doing the same. What term would one use for that?
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