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0 pointsdanesparza6y ago0 comments

Interesting. I suppose the distinguishing factor with apps like Amazon or Home Depot is they deal in physical goods?

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Yes. If you buy in the app and consume in the app, Apple wants their 30%.

That's why you can watch videos in the amazon prime video app, but you can't rent or buy movies there. You need to rent or buy the video on Amazon.com, then you can watch on the amazon video app.

holy_city6y ago

I'm pretty sure the distinguishing factor is that Apple takes a cut of all revenue that passes through the app. That was the beef Spotify had at least.

danesparzaOP6y ago

Hmmm ... see the other comment to my post. It sounds like this isn't entirely true. Certain apps like Amazon.com don't have to pay Apple 30% -- I buy plenty of physical goods with the Amazon app, but 30% of those sales don't go to Apple.

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