Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Destroying Dreams and Crushing Entrepreneurs

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.

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