Post #1543233
2026-01-30 09:19 UTC
This is THE way that Apple gets any revenue from the enormous and highly successful app platform
and ecosystem they created. They say “go nuts, make money on our platform, but share some with us in exchange for our maintaining that platform.” This is reasonable. Apple is providing a service to Patreon, and access to their tremendous user base. That ain’t nothing.
I agree that subjecting creator donations to the 30% is about the shittiest use case for this and I wish they would make an exception. But your post about how Apple is doing absolutely nothing here is garbage.
Replies (2)
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@dan@upvote.au 2026-01-30 20:13
Apple is doing nothing in *this particular case*, not in general. There's cases where the 30% is more justified.
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@ieGod@lemmy.zip 2026-01-30 20:28
It's one way but not the only way. They make money from developers before they even write a single line of code, every year.