Delta emulator triples Apple's prices to encourage external clicks

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/17/24323220/delta-emulator-ios-apple-triple-price-patreon-membership

by cglong • 2 years ago

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hu3• 2 years ago

Why does Apple still take a large cut from sales outside App store?

StableAlkyne• 2 years ago

Because they have a monopoly, and practices like this can be enforced with that monopoly

If they get booted from the app store, they cannot sell on IOS devices (and no, the one or two people willing to side load a paid app don't count :)

atomicnumber3• 2 years ago

They're a monopoly and use it to harm consumers for profit.

kanbara• 2 years ago

15% for handling all the stuff necessary to do proper customer service isn't unreasonable. everyone wants their cake and to eat it too. they already got the ability to list their emulator, it feels like a lot of begging going on, which honestly a teen writes an app and it gets big and now years later wants to make an entire career on it even though it was never permitted by apple and feels like they have a right to complain? especially when their product is focused on piracy (let's be real here). feels pretty duplicitous.

rjh29• 2 years ago

It's 27%. And Delta _want_ to handle refunds and customer support themselves:

“We’ve been using Patreon for years, and it allows us to do things Apple’s IAP system can’t — such as issuing refunds and handling customer support — making it much more convenient for creators like us.”

tedunangst• 2 years ago

Apple IAP doesn't support refunds?

mertbio• 2 years ago

It does. Apple handles the refunds automatically. They also give you a chance to provide more information about the user’s usage so if the user used the app a lot, Apple might reject the refund request.

benoau• 2 years ago

Apple have a default all-sales-are-final policy wherever the law allows it, and they tuck the refund option away in a web page decoupled from where the purchase happens. They might give refunds but they have optimized to prevent even being asked and to reject them at will. Probably only Nintendo is worse.

andrewmcwatters• 2 years ago

I get punitive pricing and all, but $10 for an Apple user is not a hurdle compared to $3.

Delta emulator triples Apple's prices to encourage external clicks

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