- cross-posted to:
- anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.com
- cross-posted to:
- anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.com
Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages. How is this possible? Enshittification.
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Easy solution, just delete the Patreon app from your phone. There’s really no need for it anyway, just use the website.
The Android app should still be fine. I’d expect Apple’s move to be followed by a lot of creators adding a “Don’t use the iOS Patreon app” to their profiles.
I mean, apps that are just the website are a bad idea in the first place, but this specific problem is entirely contained to the iOS app. If some people prefer an app to a bookmark, that’s on them.
can’t they just make it free and require membership to be purchased on the web? In other words don’t allow membership to be purchased in the app?
Yes. Many apps already do this. There is some specific wording you have to use since Apple doesn’t like when you do that, but yes you can.
Apple actively encourages subscription models even in third party apps for things that should definitely not be a subscription to give themselves the juiciest cut possible.
Too bad apple users can’t just access the site in a web browser /s
The linked essay is quite long and (at least for me) hard to read. One of the first links in the article is to this patreon blog post, that summarizes the issue well.
As we first announced last year, Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024.
This has two major consequences for creators:
- Apple will be applying their 30% App Store fee to all new memberships purchased in the Patreon iOS app, in addition to anything bought in your Patreon shop.
- Any creator currently on first-of-the-month or per-creation billing plans will have to switch over to subscription billing to continue earning in the iOS app, because that’s the only billing type Apple’s in-app purchase system supports.
Before we go any further, we want to be crystal clear about one thing: Apple’s fee will not impact your existing members. It will only affect new memberships purchased in the iOS app from November onward.
Apple’s fee will not impact your existing members. It will only affect new memberships purchased in the iOS app from November onward.
Which is contradictory to the first line of the linked essay. Does it suck? Yes. But the author of this “article” is trying to build anti-Apple outrage with this piece. Let’s not pretend any company is altruistic. Even Patreon takes a cut.
