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
Yeah, you don’t have to, but then nobody is getting your app. Most people don’t have other stores and will look at you weird if you mention side loading. Samsung Store maybe, but even Samsung users mostly don’t use it.
On Android you can distribute your app through the Play Store without being forced to use Google’s in-app purchases. For example: Patreon.
You’re not wrong about Google Play, but Apple’s behaviour is objectively worse.
I absolutely agree Apple is worse.
But no, you can’t use a different payment system (except in South Korea). And yes, there are big apps to whom magically rules don’t apply, including Patreon. If you include the same thing in your app, you will be banned, and pointing to examples of other apps is not allowed in any appeal. Between anticompetitive rules being applied to everyone and them being applied selectively based on backroom deals, I’d rather have the Apple approach, since at least it’s fair in that regard.
Official policy is that only payments for physical goods, physical services, utilities (water, gas) and credit card payments (paying back a bank for credit card usage) are allowed to use non-Google payment systems.
It’s probably just like shopping malls. Big brands pay less rent because they drive more people to the mall and thus have more leverage.
Yep. It just sucks when you are a smaller developer. I was told by Google Google Play Developer support I can’t do the app I wanted to do, and no, the fact other big apps are allowed to do the same thing doesn’t matter.