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Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store (techcrunch.com)

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[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Im a app developer. no they really dont. the hand waving you're about to do is mostly routine os related functionality and is completely unrelated to the app store functionality (payment processing, distribution, security checks)

If you don’t want to pay Apple find your own customers and get them to pay you directly via the web.

Apple prevents you from doing this when your customers want on device functionality, regardless of what device they may use. see the 'link off device' charge.

Again I wouldnt care if there was a convenient way to bypass the appstore and maintain autoupdates but sadly there really isnt without apple trying to scare the shit out of their users.

[–] musicalphysics@discuss.online -1 points 11 hours ago

I develop apps as well. Apple provides the platform, the users, advertising, user friendly rules that promote spending, the store, delivering updates, etc. last I saw iPhone users spent significantly more money than Android folks. You may want all of the same functionality without paying for it but you are not entitled to Apple’s technology. So you can either pay for their services or you can roll your own. How much time and effort and cost will it take to replicate all of that? Again, the claims that 30% is robbery is inconsistent with the far higher prices developers had to pay pre-Apple store. That didn’t come with auto updates either.