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

Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by judge2020 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:04PM (#29914760)
The App Store and new iOS APIs is an ongoing fee, much more akin to a developer charging a fee to continuously support their (for example) Wordpress theme than a one-time fee for creating the Wordpress theme.
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Re:Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's memb... by ameister14 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:08PM (#29914809)
I think it's not about the fee for service model in general, but percentage of future earnings as the fee that people have an issue with.

That makes it unlike either a one-time or a flat maintenance fee.

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