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