Twitter Blue relaunches with higher price for iOS users...

[CousinIT]

...a still unreliable method of preventing impersonation, plus color-coded check marks. 'Verification' is now gone and the new system is 'give Muskrat money'. No verification of a damn thing except that the person running the account can pay.

https://knowtechie.com/twitter-blue-relaunches-with-higher-price-for-ios-users/

iOS users are paying more due to the App Store’s 30% tax.

After a disastrous false start, Twitter today re-launched its premium subscription product: Twitter Blue.

Twitter Blue confers a few benefits. Subscribers see fewer ads, can edit Tweets, and gain a (once highly-coveted) verification tick next to their name.

The package costs $8 per month or $11 for those using iOS’ in-app payment system.

The price difference for those paying directly with Apple Pay accounts for the 30 percent ‘tax’ that Apple charges on all digital goods.

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As some leaks suggest, pages belonging to businesses will receive a gold checkmark, while those associated with government bodies will have a grey checkmark.

[RAB910]

1. I refuse to pay the fascist South African billionaire a single penny

it's a moral imperative at this point

[TheBlackAdder]

2. The $8 charged in other stores include their service fees too. What is that amount?

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What I'm trying to convey is that if the app sells for $8 at Google or Microsoft and they take $1.50 as a service fee, then the real cost if the app is $6.50.

Now, let's say that Apple does take 30% of that $8, that would be $2.40, dropping what Twitter got to $5.60.

If Musk is claiming that Apple charges 30%, going from $8 to $11 is more than 30% because the real price Twitter makes from other stores would be $6.50, that would be a $4.50 increase.


I must be wrong somewhere. Just spitballing.

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