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0 pointstroupo10mo ago0 comments

> Now for publishers,

As if there are no developers who are also publishers.

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Aaargh2031810mo ago

If you're an indie developer who self-publishes, do you want to spend your time working on your app or on payment platform integrations?

Especially the smaller self-publishing developers won't benefit from this at all. It's just the large publishers like Epic who can afford the developer resources to build their own payment systems who have something to gain here.

Apple’s rules leveled the playing field. All this ruling does is give a competitive advantage to the big fish.

troupoOP10mo ago

> If you're an indie developer who self-publishes, do you want to spend your time working on your app or on payment platform integrations?

Integrating with Stripe is easy. Or with Mollie. Or with...

> Especially the smaller self-publishing developers won't benefit from this at all.

Indeed. No one will benefit from not paying 30% of revenue to Apple.

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