Apple Backs Down on Taking 30% Cut of Paid Online Events on Facebook

Facebook has temporarily shamed Apple out of taking a 30 percent cut of paid online events organized by small businesses and hosted on Facebook -- things like cooking classes, workout sessions, and happy hours. Demand for these kinds of online events has soared during the COVID-19 pandemic. From a report: Apple says that it has a longstanding policy that digital products must be purchased using Apple's in-app payments system -- and hence pay Apple's 30 percent tax. In contrast, companies selling physical goods and services are not only allowed but required to use other payment methods (options here include Apple Pay, which doesn't take such a big cut). For example, an in-person cooking class is not a digital product, so a business selling cooking class tickets via an iPhone app wouldn't have to give Apple a 30 percent cut. But if the same business offers a virtual cooking class, Apple considers that to be a digital product and demands a 30 percent cut -- at least if the customer pays for the class using an iOS device. Last month, Facebook announced it would start offering a new feature for small businesses to host paid online events. Facebook has waived any fees for the first year, allowing small businesses to pocket 100 percent of the revenue. But Apple refused to budge on its 30 percent take.

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[Joe_Dragon]

what is apple cut on sports books apps no state will let apple take 30% of each bet.

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[AlexHilbertRyan]

Guessing here but i doubt any book could operate if they lost 30%, the margins simply wouldnt support it. If the odds for a horse ever dropped evens or under it wouldnt be worth the book to take any bets.

I smell piss

[yassa2020]

The way these companies are fighting over who gets to have an obscene take and in what circumstances and how it's spilling out into the public reminds me of something [youtu.be]...

Isn't the headline wrong?

[HalAtWork]

"Facebook has waived any fees for the first year, allowing small businesses to pocket 100 percent of the revenue. But Apple refused to budge on its 30 percent take."

Doesn't this contradict the headline "Apple Backs Down on Taking 30% Cut of Paid Online Events on Facebook"

Apple is the same company that

[Sebby]

Apple is the same company that fights ferociously to kill your rights to repair, claiming that making their products unrepairable is what improves reliability, while never extending the base warranty from what it was two decades ago.

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[AlexHilbertRyan]

THe problem is your shitty country, in other places warranty isnt a problem.

Woolworths

[AlexHilbertRyan]

In Australia you can buy gift cards external to Apple and use them via an app. Theres no way Woolies would lose 30% on that.

30% cut of the action???

[DidgetMaster]

Who do they think they are? The government? The mafia?