Apple blocks Telegram paid posts from iOS app for not paying App Store commission

[Jan]

Telegram CEO slams Apple for blocking paid content posts that bypassed 30% fee

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has criticised Apple after his instant messaging platform was forced to pull a feature from its iOS app that let content creators make money without paying a portion of it to Apple.

In a blog post on Friday, Durov explained that some content creators on Telegram started using third-party payment bots to sell access to individual posts in their Telegram channels.

 

[Dolby]

Quite a few developers and companies don't seem like to like Apple much ...

 

[Mirai]

Can't one pay for a sub on the web and then use the credentials in the app?

Like say NordVPN does, or any one of the various closs platform games out there where you make purchases via IOS apps and by Android ones, PSN and the web for PC/Mac users.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Can't one pay for a sub on the web and then use the credentials in the app?

Like say NordVPN does, or any one of the various closs platform games out there where you make purchases via IOS apps and by Android ones, PSN and the web for PC/Mac users.

Yup, you can.

 

[Mirai]

Yup, you can.

If you can then what's this article about then?

 

[Sapphiron]

If you can then what's this article about then?

You cannot communicate payment links in the app. Apple wants it's protection money.

 

[backstreetboy]

It's not called a walled garden for nothing.

 

[Dave]

Try not to be too hypocritical, Google has the same stance regarding this sort of thing.

For example

Google says Fortnite’s in-app purchase swap was a breach of contract, sues Epic

Epic swapped Google Play IAPs in 2020, but the contract says it couldn't do that.

arstechnica.com

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Try not to be too hypocritical, Google has the same stance regarding this sort of thing.

For example

Google says Fortnite’s in-app purchase swap was a breach of contract, sues Epic

Epic swapped Google Play IAPs in 2020, but the contract says it couldn't do that.

arstechnica.com

What is Googles stance on Telegram?

 

[Dave]

What is Googles stance on Telegram?

I would hazard a guess that they will have the same stance when they realise Telegram is circumventing their payment methods. It happened with Epic.

 

[Dolby]

What do Apple actually check?

As part of its push for more open payment systems, though (and to dodge each platform's 30 percent fee), Epic boldly pushed out updates to the Android and iOS apps that switched the payment processing from the platforms' in-app purchases to Epic's in-house system.

 

[Fulcrum29]

There are many here who also protect Apple's, Google's, etc, business practices. All was vented in the Epic versus 'all' lawsuit thread. I don’t support walled ecosystems, I do believe that there needs to be interoperability and in-app exclusions. The same will happen to all these ‘metaverse’ ecosystems. It is a massive revenue stream.

You guys should look up how much money PUBG made Google and Steam/Valve respectively.