Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning

Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by smoldesu on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:10PM (#27452515)

The issue is that this customer you're describing doesn't exist. It does provide a marginally higher amount of friction to use a non-native payment method, but there aren't any users out there cancelling their Netflix subscription because now Netflix gets 100% of the proceeds instead of 70%. At that point, you're inadvertently sabotaging the very company that you're trying to support, because your hardware manufacturer decided that they need to tax your software, too.

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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by CubsFan1060 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:54PM (#27456185)

Yeah, I exist.

Let’s be clear, I don’t do any of this based on how much Apple gets. I have had a lot of bad experiences with developers abusing my information (too many emails, unsubscribe doesn’t work, selling email address) that it’s simply a game I’m not going to play anymore. This isn’t something I worry about with someone like Netflix. But the hundreds of dollars I’ve spent with small developers won’t happen otherwise.

On top of it, ever try to cancel a subscription? Wall Street Journal is one that I’ve had twice in the last 10 years. Once was through their website. When I cancelled, I had to call and got a sales pitch… through 3 reps.

The next was through Apple. Cancelling was one click.

I get why developers and people like these. As a customer I hate them. And I’m just not going to do it anymore.

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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by slver on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:27PM (#27452768)

How can you honestly tell a person who just shared their opinion "you don't exist"? I also would never enter my credit card in an app, UNLESS it's a huge, well-trusted brand (which this influencer app isn't).

Many people wouldn't bother. The whole point of Apple handling this is that you trust Apple to have more clue than your average startup full of monkeys.

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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by Jcowell on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:52PM (#27453086)

This is a big thing for me. I really do not want to give any vendor raw Payment information if I can help. Would much rather do so though a service like Apple Pay/Google Pay. And then only have to worry about that one vendor when they get a data breach then a dozen vendors and deal with a dozen data breaches.

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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by smoldesu on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:24PM (#27454087)

There are plenty of services that offer payment fuzzing options, putting your faith in one of the largest digital targets does effectively nothing to save your digital privacy.

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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by Jcowell on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:04PM (#27454489)

It offers the best crosscut between connivence (subscriptions) and privacy assurance (for the time being)

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