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Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store (www.theverge.com)
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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think this difference matters that much in Patreon’s case. Convincing users to sideload an app on Android is likely much harder than just getting them to visit the Patreon website on their phone and subscribe to users that way. Heck, they could probably make the mobile site virtually identical to the app anyway.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago

they could probably make the mobile site virtually identical to the app anyway.

That's why they tried to kill PWAs too.