Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
by GekkePrutser on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:41PM
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> Casual reminder that people are absolutely terrible at separating the product, the OS, and the app vendor from one another when they are very mad at it. Or when a news outfit is trying to sell them anger.
To be honest I think Apple deciding users shouldn't have regular porn on their own iPhone because Apple doesn't want to be associated with it, is plenty reason to be angry at them. Especially because the app store has a monopoly on iOS. If it was like Android there would be no problem.
They're a supplier, not the moral police. And they shouldn't have a say in how we use their products.
Apple's actual policy for the bog-standard, consenting-adults kind of porn is that you can't put it on the App Store, and if you are a social network you need to filter for it. This isn't a full ban; reddit is able to get away with having an off-app NSFW toggle that turns off filtering on the app.
A better example might be Discord, which also had a spat with Apple over NSFW servers. Apple wanted specific communities banned from the app; the actual guidance[0] provide by Discord is vague as to why they were banned, but suggests that there's an extra level of NSFW-ness to which the "off-app toggle" solution isn't good enough for Apple.
As far as I'm aware there's no appetite at Apple for an "adult tax" - it's specifically that they don't want the brand association[1] that comes with "porn on iPhone". If it was just a matter of the higher chargeback rates of porn, they could have a separate payment processor and commission rate structure for that.
[0] https://i.redd.it/shpi09y71lt61.png
[1] Casual reminder that people are absolutely terrible at separating the product, the OS, and the app vendor from one another when they are very mad at it. Or when a news outfit is trying to sell them anger.