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Does Apple take their customary cut? I am not interested in "donating" to Apple.


They do.


Ever use a credit card to make a donation anywhere?


Apple's cut is a hell of a lot more than 2.9% + $0.30.


Never said it wasn't? Just pointing out how silly this stance is.


Balking at the difference between 30% and 3% is just as silly to you as balking at the difference between 3% and 0%?


Yes, because the balk is at the concept not the amount.


Busting somebody's balls because they're not abstracting away something as significant as 27% seems unreasonable. It shouldn't surprise you that somebody who dislikes giving 30% to apple would be proportionally less concerned about giving 3% to Visa.


It's hardly unreasonable; if their problem is, as they've said, "giving money to Apple", then it's not the amount, but the fact that Apple gets a cut at all.

And none of this is surprising, merely inconsistently applied logic. I fully understand what is happening here, clarifying statements will not help.


> then it's not the amount

Says you, but obviously that's not how most people approach matters like this. Most people can reasonably be assumed to think that differences in degree, particularly an order of magnitude apart, are very relevant. At best you're being a pedantic pain in the ass, hassling people for not explicitly stating that a difference in degree is being considered, when such considerations should be reasonably assumed even when not explicitly stated.


Says me? No. Says the person I replied to. Their outrage wasn't sparked by the size of the payment, but that payment went to Apple at all.

Nothing is reasonable about what you're writing, not one thing. At best you're being absurdly pedantic yourself, and hiding behind a throwaway no less. At worst you're trolling. I'm guessing it's the latter, so stop trolling.




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