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Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App (www.macrumors.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59469059

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[–] 388 points 7 months ago (3 children)

To make this clear: Patreon is a platform mainly used by creators, artists, musicians to get a reliable income directly from their fans. Apple is trying to steal 30% of the income of our favorite artists.

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  • [–] 121 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Good thing none of us have iPhones here, right, guys? Right?

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  • [–] 77 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Honestly I wouldn't touch Apple products with a bargepole. I dislike closed ecosystems

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I always end up with MacBooks after startups and love to have something I can just pick up and use whereas my PC is my command center. Most of my shit is web or local web services so just need a Mozilla terminal. Also, I can't fathom buying one out of pocket. I've also never had an iPhone, it doesn't make sense to my brain.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    So...if you're just using web stuff, you could probably save a heap by using a Chromebook. That's what my wife's personal laptop is and is perfect for web stuff (and has the option of Android apps too, like Mozilla). It's not her only computer though.

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  • [+] -34 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You’d rather be spied on constantly by the largest panopticon ever created, because they allow sideloading.

    Honestly this is voting for Trump over Kamala; we need a viable alternative. Why have they taken personal computing from us?

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You can deGoogle Android if you want, hopefully better alternatives, that don't suck, like Linux Phone™ 🙏 arrive before too long.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Except all the posts I see about degoogling start with purchasing Google hardware.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    other options besides graphene exist, like lineage OS that work on a ton of different phones. and sure graphene requires google hardware but nobody says you have to buy the hardware from google direct. buying used is different than buying from google

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    It's also an option many people would be fine with. I'm okay with Google having my money. Paying companies for products is perfectly fine. I just don't want them to have my data and invade my privacy

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    No, I'd rather use my device like I want to use my device instead of how I'm told to use it. I don't need to sideload on this device but glad I can if and when I want to. I prefer having a computer with me rather than a purposely stunted device kept that way to sell other devices in the ecosystem.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    You say it’s purposely stunted, I say it has guardrails that saves me hours and hours of family IT support time un-fucking my elderly parents phones. This was something I’d have to do every single time I was home when we had android phones.

    I would dump Apple in a heartbeat if something better existed. They’re not good but they’re the best for my personal scenario of the current options.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    You really shouldn't be so downvoted for sharing your experience. While not ideal it's valid and understandable.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    It happens if you express any positive sentiment towards Apple. I don’t give a shit, downvotes matter not.

    I don’t need my phone to be a completely open computer, I have a computer and a server for that. I need a communications appliance, and since I’m the family IT guy, I need the lowest bullshit device my boomer parents can operate. My parents are not going to run some high privacy custom ROM because I’m not going to troubleshoot their problems. I realize that those ROMs are objectively better if you’re only considering the phone, but I basically have to manage a fleet of devices, and it’s easier troubleshooting if I’m also using the same. I don’t love Apple, it’s just easier.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Were being spied on regardless, better to choose the option that allows one to do the most with it. If I could throw together my own phone and run a Linux variant on then I fucken would, but as it phone hardware is ass and Linux mobile doesn't exist for my phone.

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  • [+] -7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You can't logic people out of an emotional decision. The hatred of Apple runs deep.

    The obviousness of this is how Android users troll Apple discussions but Apple users don't troll Android discussions.

    They have insanely strong opinions on what other's choices that it borderline religious.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    The terminally online Apple cultists bully other people all the time. I mean you're literally doing it right now while also blatantly lying about it.

    Android has orders of magnitude more users than apple and the vast majority couldn't care less what phone someone uses.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Been locked in this ecosystem for a while guys. I'm not proud of it.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It’s better than the alternatives, unfortunately. I really want to dump Apple; the products are waning in quality and the company is spending a lot of time genuflecting for king tangerine. But it just works.

    “Just install grapheneOS” my brother in Christ, I have no time or interest in fucking up with the primary communication device I rely on to reach family, friends, and work. I don’t have time for the hobbies I want to do let alone adding work-adjacent activities under the cloak of a hobby.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The ecosystem is really seamless, especially with a MacBook and Apple watch in the mix.

    Though I don’t think there is any winning in the smartphone space. There is a duopoly and even if you personally use graphineOS you still are benefitting and helping the Google ecosystem by using Android apps.

    Sadly I don’t think we can “vote with our wallets” on smartphones. We need legal legislation that forces both Apple and Google to be consumer friendly.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Agreed. And someone on this side of the Atlantic with the teeth to bite Apple's face off when they pull shit like they did with right to repair or not allowing progressive web apps.

    "You need to let end users be able to repair your devices."

    "Okay we will sell a $700 repair 'kit' and each replacement part is $1000 and also they're hardware locked to the original device so you can't reuse older devices for parts. BTW you need our certification."

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Nothing would prevent you from communicating with a Graphene OS phone. It's a smartphone OS, not compiling Arch here...

    But use whatever excuse you can find to stay in the Apple ecosystem, that's fine.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Perhaps the parent commenter has apps they need to run for work? I know Microsoft Authenticator isn't supported on Graphene, which is admittedly bullshit but it's a requirement if you work in the government or high security industry like utilities. If that's the case they should be given a work phone, but companies don't do that most of the time in my experience.

    Or perhaps they've had a bad experience with an older version. I know that Ubuntu Mobile couldn't even make calls on a lot of devices for a while. I recently had an experience where DTMF signaling didn't work, which meant I couldn't navigate phone trees to do things like get prescriptions filled.

    Point being, there are lots of real reasons folks are stuck in their predicament.

    The temptation to be snarky is strong, but we risk hurting imperfect allies instead of fighting our real enemies.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Just buy a Fairphone from Murena with /e/OS preinstalled. You don't have to do anything yourself. It mainly works like a phone without any issues, all the features I need work on it and I didn't have to install it manually and supported the devs

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I am in it for not too long, I wanted a Framework notebook but they didn't sell in my country so I couldn't purchase it through my business so I went with macbook and iphone next to because, why not.

    I generally don't care much about things like in the op news tbh, as if I have a subscription for something I use it directly from the website

    And stuff like the seemless integration when switching from my phone to my MacBook with my airpods is fucking great.

    but I am not a normal techie, I am waaay overindexed on user experience over a lot of things, for example I pay for spotify because the Ux is great for me, I refuse to pay for streaming devices because my own plex/jellyfin server is a much better UX.

    I am also refusing to buy cars without physical buttons.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, hopefully Patron doesn't roll over and just removes the option to do it in iPhone. Taking away functionality will make Apple look bad, which they deserve.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They already caved.

    On Wednesday, Patreon said Apple has renewed its requirement that all Patreon creators must move to subscription billing. The deadline to do so is November 1, 2026.

    My Source: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/patreon-creators-have-to-switch-to-subscription-billing-by-november-thanks-to-apple-203759852.html?src=rss

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    It's silly that they don't just operate from the browser. It's how I use Patreon on my (admittedly not iPhone) Phone.

    They should have just pulled Patreon from the app store.

    It's not like it's such an impediment to ask users to use their browser.

    In an ideal world we would not have monopolies controlling app stores, but I think Patreon is really stupid for not just abandoning the app store.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I really think this move blows and I wish they would reverse this decision and make an exception.

    However Tim Cook didn’t wake up one day and wonder how he could fuck creators. Apple takes a 30% cut of all app transactions. This is how they benefit from the enormous and highly successful app platform and ecosystem they created. It’s not pure evil to say “hey use this platform all you want but you must share some of what you make there with us.”

    It does suck that they won’t let creators off the hook though. This is like taxing rips.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The platform is enormous and highly successful solely because it is a monopoly in the Apple ecosystem

    I guarantee you if other app stores were allowed on Apple devices, they would take significant market share with a far smaller cut of revenue

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    We can safely assume that alternative app stores would have less effect on iOS than they have on Android, where Google desperately wants others to step in and develop their ecosystem. And they aren’t very significant on Android at all. I tried distributing my app on Samsung Galaxy in addition to GPlay and despite its preferential positioning with the world’s largest phone maker, I got peanuts for installs. Not even a rounding error. I literally took the app down. Oh and then Xiaomi got banned from the SDK and they stole my APK for their third party app store and began sending me bug reports about how it was “broken” there. Ah yes the power and glory of alternative app stores… Apple are wise not to dump this cesspit into their ecosystem, which people love because all they want is one decent, unified default that works well.

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