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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by jorams on Sunday August 11, 2024 @01:40PM (#41217879)
The fees I'm proposing are the exact fees Apple has been charging since the beginning and that have kept them extremely profitable all along. They are higher than the fees they charge for macOS, and they're doing fine with that. All the new fees Apple is introducing are extra, and they are for things that don't need to involve them.
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Re:Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers i... by quitit on Sunday August 11, 2024 @07:40PM (#41220031)
Those fees are not new, Apple already has a cut of IAP under their regular terms.

These discussed fees apply to those which still use the App Store but choose to externalise purchase and payment.

If those developers don’t see value from being present in the App Store then there is no reason why they can’t just use a 3rd party store which has a fee structure to their liking.

This is the reality of the DMA.

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