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From a financial perspective, it appears unfair to also charge 30% for in-app purchases after the safety guarantees of the app have been established by apple, thereby invalidating their claim that charging a cut of in-app purchases is also towards ensuring platform safety for their users.

Thing is, if apple lifted the in-app purchase cuts, then all apps would essentially switch from "pay to install" to "pay after install" and the apps would get their "safety certification" some for free - i.e. at apple's cost.

What seems fair in this case is to pay the platform vendors a fee for the certification and network costs (charged like aws perhaps) instead of the leeching that's happening. Even the _option_ of doing that over giving a 30% cut seems fairer than what's happening.




Then apple will probably start charging for API requests between iphone and ios for apps that have implemented alternative payment options.




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