Tim BrayAug 12, 2024

This is gross, and further confirms Apple’s transition from innovation to rent-seeking, but there is a good solution: Stop having an app. Patreon would work just fine as a web site, no?

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112950113668058280

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Dare Obasanjo (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Apple has informed Patreon that it will be kicked out of the App Store unless it pays the 30% tax for all donations. Patreon has started a migration process that will take until November 2025 to transition all creators to the Apple billing system and making less money. https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/apple-says-patreon-must-switch-to-its-billing-system-or-risk-removal-from-app-store/

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@timbray somehow the discussion has to move from "we can't afford not to have an app in the app store" to "we can't afford to have an app in the app store"; it has to be linked to the common experience that brand ecchs (e.g. reddit) always wants to install some app which is always worse than the web site, not better
Aug 12, 2024 at 7:22pmWeb