Telegram, the CEO against App Store commissions for creators: “they destroy dreams”

The rules ofApp Store “destroy dreams” and “harm entrepreneurship”: the opinion of the CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durovwhich in recent days has expressed its critical point of view on the 30% commission that the Apple collects for in-app purchases for developers who earn over $ 1 million a year.

Durov shared his rant on his own Telegram channel, further explaining that Apple had let Telegram know that it could not have allowed content creators to use third-party payment methods for sales via Telegram. This way Telegram has no choice but to disable paid content and channels on the iOS version of the app.

“Apple is not happy with content creators who monetize their efforts without paying a 30% tax. This is just another example of how a trillion dollar monopoly abuses its dominance at the expense of the millions of users they are looking for. to monetize their content, “Durov said. The CEO of Telegram called on the European Union, India and the whole world to “start acting”.

Here is the full message of Pavel Durov:

“Some content creators started using third-party payment bots to sell access to individual posts in their Telegram channels. In this way, content creators could receive almost 100% of what their subscribers paid. which was great.

Unfortunately, we got the news from Apple that they weren’t happy with content creators monetizing their efforts without paying a 30% fee to Apple. Since Apple has complete control over its ecosystem, we had no alternative but to disable such paid posts on iOS devices.

This is just another example of how a trillion dollar monopoly abuses its domain in the market at the expense of millions of users trying to monetize their content. I hope regulators in the EU, India and elsewhere will take action before Apple destroys more dreams and crushes more entrepreneurs with a higher tax rate than any government-imposed VAT.

In the meantime, we at Telegram will work to give creators powerful and easy-to-use tools to monetize their content, outside of Apple’s restrictive ecosystem. “