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nouveaux ◴[] No.24150515[source]
For those who are arguing that Apple should allow third party developers to have their own marketplace without Apple taking a cut, should:

- Ebay allow for a third party marketplace to exist without them getting a cut?

-PayPal, chase, stripe allow third party developers to offer up their own payment services without the respective companies take a cut?

Also by the same token, Amazon is a monopoly by taking a percentage fee and should allow competitors to sell on their platform without taking a listing fee. Is this not the same thing?

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throwaway927282 ◴[] No.24150680[source]
eBay and PayPal both have third party alternatives: simply going to a different website/app.

On iOS your only option is paying Apple $100/yr to do something similar.

A similar thing would be Google Chrome blocking access to PayPal servers because they didn’t get a 10% cut of all transactions.

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nouveaux ◴[] No.24150691[source]
The browser is the same exact thing. Apple does not prevent you from using the same banking, shopping, email services through the web.
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1. throwaway927282 ◴[] No.24150927[source]
Fantastic! How do I play Fortnite and purchase V-bucks on the web?