Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Destroying Dreams and Crushing Entrepreneurs – Slashdot

Telegram’s CEO has accused Apple of destroying dreams and ruining entrepreneurship with its App Store rules, more specifically, the company’s 30% commission levied on in-app purchases for developers who make over $1 million a year. From a report: Writing on his Telegram channel, Pavel Durov said that Apple had informed the messaging platform that it would not be able to allow content creators to use third-party payment methods for sales. Telegram allows content creators to offer access to channels or individual posts through a paywall users could pay for with a third-party payment method and not Apple’s in-app purchasing system. Durov said Apple is not “happy with content creators monetizing their efforts without paying a 30% tax” and that Telegram has no choice but to disable paid posts and channels on its iOS app. “This is just another example of how a trillion-dollar monopoly abuses its market dominance at the expense of millions of users who are trying to monetize their own content,” Durov continued.