Apple rejects Facebook app that tells users Apple takes 30% cut of in-app purchases
. The app tried to inform users that Apple collects 30% of in-app purchases from a new online events feature.
Earlier this month, Facebook launched an online event feature that lets businesses host paid online events in an effort to renew some of the business lost due to Covid-19. Facebook asked Apple toIn an effort to inform users of Apple's cut, Facebook instead to add a line inside the iPhone app that informs users that "Apple takes 30% of this purchase." Facebook was unsure if Apple would approve the language and, ultimately, it didn't.The iPhone app, on the left, shows that Apple collects 30% of each purchase.that if users make the same purchase elsewhere, whether on the web or through the app on an Android phone, small businesses will keep 100% of the revenue.
"Now more than ever, we should have the option to help people understand where money they intend for small businesses actually goes. Unfortunately Apple rejected our transparency notice around their 30% tax but we are still working to make that information available inside the app experience," Facebook told Reuters on Thursday.Top app makers in recent weeks have started to speak out against Apple and its App Store policies.
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