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A comment on Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing. Parent comment

Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by TheCoelacanth on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:56PM (#27256520)
You mean the feature that lets them take a cut of every transaction that goes through it?
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by criddell on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:41AM (#27264230)
Yes, the feature that massively reduces friction for paying for things on the web for which Apple collects about 1/200th the fee that they do when you buy in their store.

If you are a web app developer who wants users to pay you, Apple Pay is awesome in that it takes away a lot of friction.

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