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0 pointsbogwog5y ago0 comments

> There is an absolutely massive difference between “All their revenue” and “All revenue from in app purchases”.

The OP is about Librem Tunnel, an app which is one part of a subscription service called "Librem One".

By forcing this company to add in-app purchases, Apple is taking 30% of all the revenue of the entire Librem One subscription, since Librem doesn't sell VPN access by itself.

I don't see how I'm blowing that out of proportion? The kiosk taking 30% of iCloud subscriptions is pretty much a perfect analogy to what's going on. I haven't exaggerated anything as far as I can tell.

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ogre_codes5y ago

> I don't see how I'm blowing that out of proportion?

Above, you gave (to me at least) the impression that you were referring to all of Librem’s revenue. Not just the revenue which is filtered through the App Store, every penny they earn.

I don’t care for a lot of the way the App Store works, including the point you make here. But your original post was not very clear if this is what you meant to say.

There should be room in the App Stores for businesses which sell services where the App is only part of the offering.

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