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posted by martyb on Sunday August 30 2020, @06:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-you-don't-know-won't-hurt-you^W-Apple dept.

Apple won't let Facebook tell users about 30-percent Apple tax on events:

Facebook announced a new feature for paid online events earlier this month. It allows small businesses to host virtual cooking classes, workout sessions, happy hours, and other events and charge people to participate.

In its announcement, Facebook said it was not taking a cut of customers' payments. That means that on Android, "small businesses will keep 100% of the revenue they generate," Facebook says. But the story was different on iOS thanks to Apple's 30-percent cut of in-app purchases.

[...] the social media giant wanted to alert users to the 30-percent charge.

[...] But Facebook says Apple forced the company to delete the notice, dubbing it a violation of the App Store's policy against showing "irrelevant" information to users.

Apple's rules state that an app developer shouldn't "include irrelevant information, including but not limited to information about Apple or the development process."


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  • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:06PM (6 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:06PM (#1044303)

    Because if Apple drops the Facebook app, they'll draw the ire of millions of Facebook addicts and slide into irrelevance faster than you can say "That's it! I'm buying an Android cellphone tomorrow."

    Facebook hold Apple by the balls here.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:20PM (5 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:20PM (#1044317)

    I'm not sure that's true but I would love to see Facebook test it.

    I know a couple of iPhone owners who would burn the world down if they lost access to Facebook.

    • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:22PM (4 children)

      by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:22PM (#1044320)

      Well I suppose if you're that addicted to your iPhone *and* Facebook, you can always access it through the web browser.

      Not that I know mind you, I own nor do neither...

      • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:41PM

        by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:41PM (#1044329)

        I use Facebook on mobile through browser - only choice since they dropped app support for my phone. Works perfectly well, in some ways better than the app, you don't get notifications is the only issue but I don't consider FB important enough to care about that.

        I wonder if you could just post a comment with a link to the web version saying "iPhone users click here to pay less (or pay the event more)", or maybe write a bot to do that, I mean obviously Facebook can't / won't but users could, in fact if it results in more money for the event then event promoters could do that, surely?

      • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:51PM

        by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:51PM (#1044334) Journal

        I do occasionally use Facebook (well, YouTube) through the web browser, and you don't always need to enable JavaScript to use it. But you do often enough that I've a special user set up for the purpose. If I weren't low on disk space I'd set up a separate virtualized instance.

        --
        Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
      • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:58PM

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:58PM (#1044337)

        iPhone users could indeed access Facebook through their browser, if only they could figure out how to.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @12:41PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @12:41PM (#1044554)

        A what? Is that something like Safari?