#apptax — Public Fediverse posts

But at least you can buy audiobooks on Apple Books. There are plenty of services whose gross margins are lower than 30%. Apple's 30% #AppTax renders these unviable, and if Apple doesn't deign to offer its own in-house monopoly version, the service is simply unavailable as an iPhone app.

But that's not the only bad outcome. Some lucky service providers are able to pay the #AppleTax by gouging Apple's *customers*, raising prices to pay the danegeld. That's the second effect.

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