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A comment on Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws. Parent comment

Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by anonymouse008 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:04PM (#33974900)
That’s false. If your business is fine with 12% processing fees (specifically in tech and more so in IAP style apps) and not with 30% - something is very wrong.

[Context] it is extremely odd to (ab)use the leverage of a 0 marginal cost business to be sensitive to a +/-18% payment processing fee - when the world basically runs on ~4% IRL. The business case if true and still viable should be unique and outside of a pure software play - which gets you squarely out of IAP.

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Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by britneybitch on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:10PM (#33974996)
Are you saying every non-iOS software company with a profit margin under 18% should go out of business?
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Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by anonymouse008 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:43PM (#33975459)
Rule of thumb: yes.

Long story: it would be extremely odd to (ab)use the leverage of a 0 marginal cost business to be sensitive to a +/-18% payment processing fee - when the world basically runs on ~4% IRL.

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Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by wellthisisgreat on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:09PM (#33974975)
Yeah exactly. I should be cheering for the option of paying less to Apple as a business, but realistically you will get sideloading, piracy and the “mobile users don’t spend money on apps” like it is “Android users don’t spend money on apps”
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