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- Get money through the platforms' users and their payment methods, without having to worry about asking for users' credit card information, billing, chargebacks, or individual invoicing: 25% platform tax.

- Get money through your own means, similarly to what Amazon did with Kindle books: no platform tax.

Not sure what you’re talking about, you still can’t buy kindle books on iOS apps.

> Get money through the platforms' users and their payment methods, without having to worry about asking for users' credit card information, billing, chargebacks, or individual invoicing: 25% platform tax.

Fair enough. So I guess if I don't mind worrying about all those things, I can simply reach my own agreement with a PCI-compliant payment service provider to charge customers through my app directly and therefore avoid that 25% platform tax, right?

...right?

You should definitely worry about cashbacks.

You refund 100% but Apple and Google keep their share.

Plus the advertising network takes its own tax, right? Then it goes into the same or similar pockets again anyways.

The ad platform takes big fees.