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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by MatthiasPortzel on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:25PM (#39781632)
I don’t know where this idea that 30% is an unreasonable monopoly-sustained fee comes from. Stripe’s fee is 2.9% plus 0.30, so it would be way more than 3% on small purchases, which I assume are a lot of App Store transactions. Steams is 30% even though there’s compition (Discord tried to run a store with a 90/10 split and shut it down very quickly). Google Play is the same as Apple’s, and they allow other payment processors (for non-games). On the other hand, Audible has no competition, and they have a 75% fee (as in they keep 75%).

Most App developers aren’t even paying 30%, they’re paying the lower 15%.

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by AlexandrB on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:17PM (#39783122)
> On the other hand, Audible has no competition, and they have a 75% fee (as in they keep 75%).

Amazon seems to inexplicably get away with a lot of anti-competitive behavior. I don't know why.

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by _aavaa_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @07:01PM (#39785489)
They do have some competition, and we should be supporting them. See: https://libro.fm