“We asked Apple to reduce its 30% App Store<\/a> tax or allow us to offer Facebook Pay<\/a> so we could absorb all costs for businesses struggling during COVID-19. Unfortunately, they dismissed both our requests and SMBs will only be paid 70% of their hard-earned revenue,” said Simo in the blog post.
“We asked Apple to reduce its 30% App Store<\/a> tax or allow us to offer Facebook Pay<\/a> so we could absorb all costs for businesses struggling during COVID-19. Unfortunately, they dismissed both our requests and SMBs will only be paid 70% of their hard-earned revenue,” said Simo in the blog post.
Facebook clearly is painting Apple as a ‘villain’ — a company who isn’t willing to reduce App Store fees to help small and medium businesses. In fact, in an image shared of the app by Facebook clearly mentions that “Apple takes 30% of this purchase” on the iOS version. On the Android version of the app, users will see the message “Facebook doesn’t take a fee from this purchase.”
Apple has been under pressure from several big name app developers to reduce the App Store fees. Epic Games<\/a>, developer of Fortnite, has sued Apple for banning the app on similar grounds as well. It will be interesting to see if and how Apple does react to Facebook’s cloaked criticism.
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