• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    642·
    4 months ago

    Apple is not a government. There should not be an Apple tax on every payment made on their phones, especially when the argument is “Our payment service provides benefits and keeps kids from buying microtransactions without your permission.” when there are viable alternatives for payments, yet Apple blocks and bans them.

    How is it not anti-competitive to do this? Fucking break apple up too. God Harris needs to win or this bullshit will just continue to be egregious.

    We need a stronger FTC and a reversal of the overturning of the Chevron Deference, and several idiots on the supreme court to be impeached.

    Vote. Knock doors. President, Senate, House. It’s the only way we can get anything fucking done anymore since one party is just all in on corporate fascism.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      361·
      4 months ago

      At this point I’m less bothered by Apple taking a cut (though that’s bad enough on its own) than I am by them forcing Patreon to stop offering an entire business model. That’s so much worse than them just taking a cut if people choose to subscribe on an iPhone instead of in their web browser.

      This is incredibly anti-competitive, but unfortunately it’s generally not illegal to be anti-competitive unless you have monopoly power, and the definition of monopoly has usually been interpreted far too narrowly.

      • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
        161·
        4 months ago

        They are literally being removed for not allowing Apple to take their cut.

        From Patreon’s post:

        Apple is requiring that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system starting this November, or risk being removed from the App Store.

        So while I agree with you, I am against both of those things because they are THE SAME THING. Apple isn’t adding anything to anything. Especially when their cut is like 30 fucking percent. And beyond hurting patreon, it hurts small independent creators who either have to jack up their prices to compensate for the tax and get the same amount, which will reduce the amount of people that actually subscribe, or they literally just have to eat that loss, which for many creators will drive them out of producing the content that their patreon funds.

        Apple is rotten to the core.