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“No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees (www.techradar.com)
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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, a fraction of a cent per customer is double dipping. w/e

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Precedent is precedent, and now smaller independent devs can use this ruling to their favor.

[–] LoKout@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

This won't help small devs. Here's why:

You have zero market. Pay to make your own payment portal, processing, etc etc. With what? Venture funding? Personal investment? Offload to square or PayPal and they take a cut instead?

Apple charges 15% (not 30% for under 2 mil) of each $1. Making 85c per transaction with no upfront costs seems reasonable.