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BoboDupla | 5 years ago

I might be mistaken, but wasn't this the policy Apple had since the beginning of AppStore? Every developer and user knew from the beginning what they are getting into. With Windows it is different, no? It would be a drastic change to a product, which operated differently at the beginning.

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badestrand|5 years ago

Yes, the fee has been there since the beginning, if you use their payment system.

I think the new and problematic policy is that they now

- forbid you to use other payment systems than their own

- forbid you to just add the 30% to your price on iOS compared to other platforms

- forbid you to mention to the user that they can pay on the company's website or through other channels

Also their own product's don't have to pay the fee. So Apple Music can charge 30% less than Spotify or Spotify can distribute significantly less of the revenue to the artists.

zuhsetaqi|5 years ago

> forbid you to just add the 30% to your price on iOS compared to other platforms

That’s new to me. Any source of that?

another_kel|5 years ago

>- forbid you to just add the 30% to your price on iOS compared to other platforms

But google does exactly that for their Youtube Premium(and Youtube music). I'm sure this isn't prohibited.

InvOfSmallC|5 years ago

Honestly, it escapes me how these three condition can be legal conditions. I don't in EU you can actually do that.