Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, August 13th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Patreon is forced to change how it does things because Apple finally came to claim their vig. Have basically

all our social security numbers been leaked. Crowd strike owns its mistake in

person and if you build it that chip factories might not come if nobody shows up to work.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

If you sign up for a Patreon membership via its iOS app that will now be subject to

Apple's 30% fees beginning in November.

Also, Craters on Patreon must now switch to subscription billing.

So Apple doing, Apple crap again, quoting Tech Crunch.

Apple has threatened to remove Creator platform Patreon from the App Store if

creators use unsupported third-party billing options or disabled transactions on

iOS instead of using Apple's own in-app purchasing system for Patreon's subscriptions.

In a blog post and email to Patreon creators

about upcoming changes to membership in the iOS app,

the company says it's begun a 16 month long migration process to move all creators to Apple's

iOS in-app purchase system by November 2025.

Patreon also informed creators it will switch them over to subscription billing

as of November 2024,

but they will be able to decide whether to price their memberships at a higher fee

to cover Apple's Commission or decide if they want to absorb the fee themselves.

In addition, creators can opt to delay the migration

in their Patreon settings to November 2025,

...