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Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App (www.macrumors.com)
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[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 207 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (53 children)

Why does Apple feel they deserve a 30% cut? In cases like this, Apple aren't providing any value at all.

  • Apple aren't providing the content - the creator is.
  • Apple aren't providing a platform for the content - Patreon is.
  • Apple aren't providing a platform for discovery - people aren't finding Patreon creators solely via Apple products.

Sure, Apple are providing a payments platform, but why do they deserve 10x what Stripe charges?

[โ€“] lofuw@sh.itjust.works 0 points 17 hours ago

Why does Apple feel they deserve a 30% cut?

Because they can. Time and time again, useful idiots have proven their dipshittery by sucking off the people taking them for a ride.

A main tenant of business decisions is to fuck over your customers as hard as they're willing to be fucked. Since nobody has any standards these days, corporations make a killing.

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