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It’s the size of the fee that is unethical.


Taxes are paid by the consumer. Ideally developers should price things based on how much revenue they want per transaction, and have the 30% fee shown to the user.

If that were the case, there would be nothing unethical about a 30% tax nor a 90% tax.

Therefore, it’s not the size that’s the problem, but the fact that the tax isn’t communicated to the consumer, and also that Apple wants you to charge the same price in-app as elsewhere (though I’m not sure if that part is enforced)


So what determines how large the fee has to be for it to be unethical? I don't see any principled way to decide, which makes me doubt your argument here.




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