Timely_Jellyfish_2077Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store
Apple and Google stores are classic rent seeker behavior.
Deny them profit.
You don’t have to use the Google store though.
Apple forces you to the their app store, and they have a huge list of requirements they impose on apps to which really dicks around developers
I don’t think this difference matters that much in Patreon’s case. Convincing users to sideload an app on Android is likely much harder than just getting them to visit the Patreon website on their phone and subscribe to users that way. Heck, they could probably make the mobile site virtually identical to the app anyway.
helenslunchthey could probably make the mobile site virtually identical to the app anyway.
That’s why they tried to kill PWAs too.