Apple's Platform Tax Is Beatable After All
Developers who want to get their apps onto Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iOS App Store have to agree to some very strict terms and conditions. To many companies, the most important of these are the regulations that govern payments made for and through iOS apps. Any transaction made in an iOS app must go through Apple's payment system -- and Apple gets a cut.
Apple's "platform tax" is a huge source of revenue for the tech giant and a huge headache for its competitors and app partners (just how huge is a matter of debate: Apple has contested the figures Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) used in a European court filing, for example). As burdensome as it can be, Apple's platform tax is usually unavoidable: Apple's iOS is simply too important, and the company is simply too unwilling to budge on the issue. Except, it seems, when it comes to Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), which recently started offering transactions in one of its iOS apps that appear to exist outside of Apple's payment system.
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