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Comment by obmelvin

Beyond caring about the larger issues at play here, the way it can effect you is if you have to pay 30% more for every subscription because companies need to account for paying Apple so much

This is not theoretical. In 2018 Netflix would've paid Apple around 256m [0] and Netflix also had a fair number of price raises in the past few years. Obviously the app store commission was not the only factor in these price raises, but it's clearly a factor the tune of about 250 million per year.

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-a...

parent obmelvin 4 years ago

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