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Why does Apple feel they deserve a 30% cut? In cases like this, Apple aren't providing any value at all.
Sure, Apple are providing a payments platform, but why do they deserve 10x what Stripe charges?
They were sued by Epic Games for the same shit and Epic won on one count which allows them to put links to alternative payment methods and go around Apple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple
So couldn't patreon just argue in court that this precedent was already set with epic?
That is how case law works, yes.
I'm just wondering then why Apple would even push this if a president was already set with Epic. What a bunch of greedy corporate bastards.
I'm not a lawyer but I think they could.