Apple Pay charges 0.15%. App Store charges 30%. I want to see both on the receipt. This is not rocket science. I can see how much government charges right? The point is to show me all intermediaries which are getting a cut directly from the purchase. App Store clearly is an intermediary.
Tim Sweeney mentioned it as well - app developers cannot show cost breakdown in their own apps, it's an App Store rule [1].
[1] https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/155341909648987750...
However that is not the point. As a consumer, wouldn't you like to see cost breakdown like this?
App purchase: $10.00
Direct intermediary total: 30%
Payment processor total: 0.15%
Government total: 8.25%
PS. Software Engine total: 5%
PS. Patent uses total: 5.63% [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32374976 - so finally we can put patent trolling issue to rest, that is to make it impossible for patent owners to prohibit it's uses and instead use appraisers to define value of a patent in it's particular use. This may mean forcing users to pay for a patent use, even in products which were initially free.
It should be in Apple Pay payment view overlay. Laud and clear. Very simple, it’s really not that hard to show the numbers.
I’m not saying going as far as to show to which budget money goest to from 30% tax, that will be the case in 50 years anyway, but as a consumer I’m really not interested in that information. I mean just a simple breakdown, like on receipts about tax amount payed to government on each purchase. Not just Apple of course - but all companies playing this game - stripe, PayPal, visa, Mastercard etc.
That’s because they act as a direct intermediary in such a fundamental branch of our economy, therefore society in general - money transfers.
Banks have to show the fees, why not payment processors? Again it’s obvious and simple to implement [1].
Now we need signatures and lobby governments. Maybe Europe is a better start because it seems government is more happy with adding regulations.
[1] https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Brandys-walmart-...