Stefan Mileschin

Jobs demanded more money with menaces again

Security outfit Purism has had to pull its Librem Tunnel from Apple's app store because of its "unfair business practices".

For those who came in late, in 2019 Purism launched a suite of privacy-protecting, no-tracking apps and services named Librem One. And it included an encrypted, no-logging, virtual private network tunnel named Librem Tunnel.

The issue was Apple's policy that applications that make in-app purchases or offer subscriptions using Apple's payment platform pay Apple a third of their revenue.

"The justification behind that fee is that companies are benefiting from all of the work Apple has put into its payments platform and so the fee helps them maintain that payments infrastructure while saving app developers from having to implement their own payment or subscription infrastructure", the company said.

https://fudzilla.com/news/52555-puri...fair-practices