The Hated One
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[IMPORTANT] If you're on iOS, LEAVE APPLE BEFORE NOVEMBER 2024!
🕑 Added 2024-08-23 13:58:00 +0000 UTCApple feels entitled to a whole 30% cut of Patreon creators' earnings through Patreon app on the iPhone. This is in line with Apple's App Store policy that charges app developers a third of all in-app purchases and transactions. So in November 2024, all users of the iOS app will have their support slashed by 30%. If you are on the iOS Patreon app, USE PATREON.COM WEBSITE TO CONTINUE YOUR SUPPORT INSTEAD OF THE iOS APP.
Why should Apple be entitled to 30% of my Patron donations? What has Apple ever done for small content creators? It makes zero sense to require that small creators pay an arbitrary 30% tax to a company that 's worth trillions of dollars. Apple is doing nothing for content creators. Apple is not hosting my content, they are not delivering my content, they are NOT my platform.
Apple has been found to be stealing content of online creators (including my YouTube channel) to train their AI models. Apple deserves NOTHING. If you are an Apple user, it is up to you to boycott Apple's unjustifiable tax. What Apple is doing is extortion and exploitation and should not be tolerated.
All creators and developers should pass on the Apple tax onto the customer. If customers are okay with supporting a predatory, exploitative, monopolistic company like Apple, it's their decision. If you are not okay with arbitrary 30% price hikes, LEAVE APPLE.
Charging creators 30% for doing nothing for them is beyond cruel,
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Comments
Ncho Towers
This is despicable. But I’d like to know more about this. Can you point me to the original post by Patreon? Is there any public announcement somewhere?
Mr Samratt
dude. i resubscribed through ios only to find this as first post. next month i will do in browser.
The Hated One
Android or Google Play Store version shouldn't be affected as per Patreon's explanation.
Acelicious
Never liked apple. I hate big tech in general. They literally wanna replace humanity with AI.
brownbaron
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Hopefully Patreon can sue for anti-competitive practices.
Luis
One more reason to dich Apple.
Luis
Indeed, playstore and the website dont take that tax cut.
fxnn
Can't imagine this practice to be in line with EU laws, but it will take lots of time until anything actually happens.
Seth Hatfield
Disgusting
dem0ng1rl
Horrible practice by apple
Mikhail Goncharov
thank you for the heads-up! I assume that it's not the case for play store?
