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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by toomuchtodo on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:19PM (#30860895)
Europe used regulation to cram down interchange fees [1]. The US could (and should) do the same, again, with regulation. Users shouldn't have to care (just as they shouldn't have to understand the intricacies of core financial infra in their country), and Big Tech shouldn't be able to use monopoly power to take such a large cut.

And lets not mince words: Apple in this case (and Google in theirs with their mobile ecosystem) is acting as a payment processor, and that function should be regulated as such. If that margin, once regulated down, is insufficient to operate an app store (hah), charge a flat fee per app to be listed and made available to customers. Shopify costs $30-300/month (depending on plan), which sounds like reasonable cost segmentation to adopt for providing a mobile storefront/app in their app store.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/lt/IP_15_...

(I'm aware this post is Netherlands specific; I'm speaking in broad strokes)

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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by vineyardmike on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:31AM (#30864739)
> is insufficient to operate an app store (hah), charge a flat fee per app to be listed and made available to customers

No one - no one - wants that. Free apps suddenly won't be free when they have to pay to be on the App Store. Its so easy to create an app and share it, and that is a good thing. The end result of apps costing money (even though free apps have nearly a 0 marginal cost to distribute) is that you'll end up with less apps and/or more ads and data tracking (also proposed to be regulated away) and/or a subscription service that bundles free apps to cover the cost.

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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by tonyedgecombe on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:49AM (#30864840)
>Its so easy to create an app and share it, and that is a good thing.

It's how you end up with 2 million apps in the store but you still can't find what you need.

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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by heavyset_go on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:44PM (#30873977)
Developers already pay to be on the App Store each year, and developers pay to be on the Play Store.
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Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps by vineyardmike on Friday April 01, 2022 @05:06PM (#30883304)
Thats not meant to cover the cost of distribution of the app nor the associated per use costs. Thats paying for access to developer services.
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