> As a result, dating app developers using these entitlements will need to submit a separate app binary for iOS and/or iPadOS that may only be distributed on the Netherlands storefront.
> When using a third-party payment system within your app, your app must include an in-app modal sheet explaining that purchases are made through a source other than Apple. It must be displayed prior to:
Any payment flow where the user would make a purchase;
Any flow to enter payment information, even if it is not for a specific purchase.
> Body: All purchases in the <App Name> app will be managed by the developer “<Developer Name>.” Your stored App Store payment method and related features, such as subscription management and refund requests, will not be available. Only purchases through the App Store are secured by Apple.
> Consistent with the ACM’s order, dating apps that are granted an entitlement to link out or use a third-party in-app payment provider will pay Apple a commission on transactions. Apple will charge a 27% commission on the price paid by the user, net of value-added taxes. This is a reduced rate that excludes value related to payment processing and related activities.
The 27% is not for payment processing, but for the platform. You'll be paying 30% on almost any platform. It has been like this for ages, and is even higher in different industries.. Any publishing deal, book, music, movies, games.. But look at your average retailer. They want a markup. And their distributor wants a markup..
There's a reason why Elon Musk wants to do the complete vertical for spacex...
It's a small win in some respects. But Apple have been very too at only opening the door on payments that little bit. I would assume (and hope) that this will be the thin edge of the wedge and it will expand over time.
Instead of forcing Apple to allow alternative payment methods, Apple should have been forced to implement PWAs to full specs in Safari/WebKit. That would help take care of the AppStore monopoly.
> Absolutely vile. This says everything about @tim_cook’s Apple and what it thinks of developers. I hope the company gets exactly what it deserves. Everybody on their executive team should be ashamed, and some of them should not be here when it’s all over. We all see you
> We’ve been told that if Apple ever asked its employees to betray their principles, they’d leave. In a similar vein, everybody, top to bottom, involved in planning, editing, implementation of everything in this document should leave Apple. You betrayed us
This is pretty much the way I feel about Apple's management, and the main reason why I wouldn't work at Apple[1]. They've simply gone off the rails.
And I say this as someone that has known/worked with people that were/are currently at Apple - so I know they have smart people working there, that must be thinking along similar veins I'm sure.
[1] My own personal opinion about Apple's management; doesn't mean I hold current non-management employees at Apple to those standards.
