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  • Facebook says Apple's 30% App Store fee hurts small businesses during COVID-19

    monkeyman279monkeyman279
    Will Facebook be lowering their ad rates for small companies that are hurt by the crisis?
    Yes by 20% and also setup a small business grant program to donate to businesses.

    Look, Facebook are definitely not a model company when it comes to their policies towards users and policies around privacy but this whataboutism doesn't really help. 

    The point here is that these are person to small business transactions for things like education classes. Facebook, for once, want to do something right and let businesses keep 100% of the money people choose to spend with these small businesses. 

    I don't think Apple should be taking any money from transactions like this. It's not about 'free rent' on the appstore or anything like that. It's more akin to Apple taking 30% if you pay your bills using a banking app on your iPhone or 30% apple tax if you do your shopping through a supermarket or amazon app on iPhone. I assume you'd be good with Apple taking those sort of fees as well?

    gatorguy

  • US WeChat ban could cut global iPhone shipments by 30%, says Ming-Chi Kuo

    monkeyman279monkeyman279
    A lot of people read this as 'banning the app'. The EO actually states that no US company can do any business with WeChat. 

    However, this one is too important to Apple for them to remove Wechat from the Chinese app store. Literally nobody in China would buy a phone that can't install Wechat. It is your everything app for a lot of day to day life that would be hard to be without (payments, communications, ticketing, public transport and a ton of other things). I expect Apple will do some mental gymnastics around what 'doing business with' means and just not process in app purchases for them. I'm sure they would go as far as allowing side-loading of apps for this or just take any US fines rather than remove it as it would be the end of their iPhone sales in China instantly.

    However, unlike TikTok which doesn't have any real evidence of having data accessed by the chinese government, Wechat is absolutely part of state control and tracking of the general public in china and sending the wrong private message to someone else can have the police knocking at your door. Absolutely Apple should not be doing business with WeChat if they have any principles around privacy or human rights. 
    gatorguyOfertokyojimuwatto_cobra