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Ask HN: Will Apple want a cut of this?

1 points| Mankhool | 15 years ago

If I create an app that, for example, enables commerce between users, and my business model is to take a percentage of that revenue - will Apple want 30% of it? I don't know where/if there is a line between "subscription services" and anything else that makes money via an app.

2 comments

[+] JonathanWCurd|15 years ago|reply

If you use apple to process the transaction then I would say yes. If you do it some other way ie paypal then probably not.

They would of course take 30% of the cost of the app if it wasn't free.

[+] mcav|15 years ago|reply

Is it like Paypal? Apple doesn't take a cut from sending payments via paypal's iOS app.