Steve Troughton-SmithSome multimillionaire VP at Apple has decided that the best thing for the company, one of the biggest in the world, to do is introduce a new 30% tax on struggling artists and creators who have no business or professional relationship with it in the first place
(I had to remove some expletives from this before posting, but feel free to add them back in in the comments)
Matt Bonney@stroughtonsmith I’m just gonna say “motherfuckers” once, but go ahead and assume that’s repeated maybe 1,000 times
Davide Di Stefano@stroughtonsmith fuck, shit, phil schiller, my ass
Sam@stroughtonsmith So now we know what that hydraulic press video was actually about?
martinbuckler@stroughtonsmith But also, creators who use Patreon often have dedicated and highly loyal audiences. Pissing off these creators by taking 30% of their income means it will absolutely be spoken about in the bad light it deserves to their patreons.
This is one of most efficient routes to highly effective and personalised bad marketing I can imagine
Andreas K
oisin@stroughtonsmith shower of fucking shitgibbons
Krystian Kopeć@stroughtonsmith And some people still get angry when others call Apple’s commission an Apple Tax. I guess they have truly and sadly earned this term.
John Philip BellWho better to make money off than those you have no business relationship with?
Corporations have a twisted view of the world, by law. Until citizens push their governments to pass laws that ballance a company's fiduciary responsibility to shareholders against public responsibility/interests, this is the way.
(Of course, the biggest problem will be defining that, right? 🤔)
Sure, you could motivate Apple users, but since they tend to be (institutionalized/indoctrinated/locked-in/fanatic) about the brand... Not sure Apple can do wrong in their eyes: so the duty to shareholders to 'keep customers happy' likely won't have any effect.)
DanielSomething I haven't heard much about is that Patreon, being a multi-sided marketplace, has a more complex/diverse creator-monetization model that wouldn't fully translate to Apple IAP.
2 noteworthy examples are: Per Creation Payments and Milestone Goals.
In this video Patreon's CEO explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LoTH3PzgM
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They are giving these up so they can keep their iOS app.