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Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 11 hours ago by Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Most likely the app exists just because people don't know how to type patreon.com into the browser anymore

Full functionality is available on the web AFAIK. And if you subscribe on the web, there's no Apple cut, but you can still use the app to see said content.

It's an inconvenience, but a super easy one to get past and not exclusive to Patreon so a trick any Apple users should know anyway if they enjoy paying subscriptions for things (Netflix, Spotify, whatever)

[โ€“] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I too assume the Patreon App doesn't do anything that cannot be done on their web page. I can imagine there good dev reasons but also bad incentives to make it an app.

I am biased against Apple as I like being the on in control of my hardware/software.. but is it a stretch to say Apple influence their users to use apps instead of webpages (so they can rentseek a cut)?