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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."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:16PM (1 child)
It's flamebait because the OP suggests the robber barons are united in an effort to fuck over the poor, and that's just not true: they're not united at all! They compete with one another to fuck over the poor.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:46PM
It's not that simple. You've got groups like the MPAA, that are unified (in some ways), but those groups are fighting other groups that take their profits in different areas. Most of them aren't specifically targeting poor people, but are rather targeting those who are defenseless. Children and teens with access to money are a big part of the target, but they're willing to target any large group that's defenseless.
It's the economics counterpart to power politics.
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