Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov is accusing Apple of crushing goals and ruining entrepreneurship with its App Store rules. In a publish on his Telegram channel, Durov says that the US firm is abusing its ‘market dominance on the expense of thousands and thousands of customers who’re attempting to monetize their very own content material.’ The publish is particularly aimed toward Apple’s 30% tax which it prices on in-app purchases from builders who make over $1 million a 12 months.
Durov says that Apple has knowledgeable Telegram that it’s going to not enable the usage of third-party fee strategies to promote entry to particular person posts of their Telegram channels. For the unversed, Telegram permits content material creators to supply entry to channels by means of third-party fee bots. Durov says that this fashion, content material creators may obtain near 100% of no matter their subscribers paid, which was nice.
“Sadly, we obtained phrase from Apple that they weren’t pleased with content material creators monetizing their efforts with out paying a 30% tax to Apple”, Durov writes within the publish.
Durov’s feedback come after Apple introduced App Retailer guidelines that debar builders from monetizing their content material bypassing its in-app funds programs.
“That is simply one other instance of how a trillion-dollar monopoly abuses its market dominance on the expense of thousands and thousands of customers who’re attempting to monetize their very own content material,” he writes. Durov additionally calls upon regulators within the EU, India and different nations to take motion earlier than Apple destroys extra goals and crushes extra entrepreneurs.
“I hope that the regulators within the EU, India and elsewhere begin taking motion earlier than Apple destroys extra goals and crushes extra entrepreneurs with a tax that’s larger than any government-levied VAT”, he writes within the publish.
“Within the meantime, we at Telegram shall work to supply creators highly effective and easy-to-use instruments to monetize their content material – outdoors of Apple’s restrictive ecosystem”, he additional provides.
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