Steve Troughton-SmithI think with Apple's latest changes to the Core Technology Fee, we're starting to see some of the elements that might actually work when all's said and done. Specifically, developers self-reporting company revenue — I think the only way to make the CTF fair is to have a flat fee, per year, that scales based on how much money your company makes. If you make $0, you pay $0. If you're Spotify, you pay $Ms. That takes away Apple's per-install tracking; devs don't need a nanny, they need a partner
Kyle Howells@stroughtonsmith I'm worried they might get away with something like that. But I'm still fundamentally against Apple being able to tax developers at all.
Windows, macOS, Linux don't and have never worked that way.
You don't pay Google, Mozilla or Safari for your website being able to run on their browser.
I object to Apple being able to enforce a toll bridge between users and developers.
Not a payment processing fee, or a anything like that, just a pure tax just because.