Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by kasey_junk on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:37PM (#29914403)

Apple subscriptions provide me an extremely valuable service. They are easy to track, cancel & pay for. To the point I will not use an a subscription on my phone that doesn’t go through their mechanism.

Is that valuable enough to charge 30%? I don’t know but it’s certainly not outside what seems reasonable by orders of magnitude to me.

I’m sympathetic to the argument that they are a monopoly and should be forced to allow alternate app stores or payment processors but it’s not what they are charging that puts me over the line.

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by adam_arthur on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:39PM (#29914429)

So allow for both Apple subscriptions and alternative mechanisms.

Most likely the non-Apple route would be cheaper to the consumer and get 90% of the traffic for that reason alone. If that's the reality, does that not imply that Apple's practices harm most consumers? Seems self evident to me that they do.

Besides, there really should be some common spec/mechanism to manage subscriptions from any vendor.

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by maerF0x0 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:57PM (#29914665)

I think the point is if one time purchase is 30% but subscription is 10%

Then a one time purchase app just makes a lifetime subscription for the same price and cuts the fee from 30% to 10%.

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by Guest42 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:39PM (#29914427)

I can’t imagine willingly paying more than 5 percent for the ability to manage these subscriptions.

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by wruza on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:33PM (#29915115)

That is until you meet some subscription wizard like Adobe or a similar "you have a couple of weeks in December to cancel your sub" legal artist, then you likely miss it, and https://youtube.com/watch?v=8k5oAaXINX8

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by t-writescode on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:05PM (#29914778)

Doesn't PayPal provide a similar list of services? How much of a cut do they take?

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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by mdoms on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:03PM (#29914750)

> To the point I will not use an a subscription on my phone that doesn’t go through their mechanism.

Well then I have good news for you: Apple forbids you that option.

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