Elon Musk remains committed to monetizing Twitter. During the last weeks, the executive has cut an important part of the workforce and has announced changes related to the premium subscription system Twitter Bluewhich makes exclusive functionalities available to Internet users in exchange for the payment of 8 dollars.
Now, according to ‘The Information’, the social network is planning that users of Apple devices have to pay 11 dollars. In other words, if the user subscribes to the service through the Twitter website, they can do so for $8. In case you perform the procedure through the application on an Apple gadget, the price will be exactly three dollars.
With this move, the social network seeks to avoid losing money. And it is that, every time a user makes a purchase in an application downloaded from the official Apple store, the App Store, the brand keeps up to 30% of the total cost. This is done, as the iPhone technology company has stated on several occasions, to cover the expenses caused by the maintenance of the store and the work necessary to combat malicious software.
It should be remembered that, in recent weeks, Elon Musk has harshly charged against Apple due to the collection of this type of commission in its application store, which he calls “secret taxes”.
Precisely, the policy established by the apple in its store caused the popular video game ‘Fortnite’ to come out of its devices in 2020. Specifically, when Epic, the developer, began providing a alternative payment gateway that allowed payments to be made without Apple getting a single euro in return.
The executive also dropped that Apple had threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store and that the company would allegedly hate “free speech in America.” Just a few days later, Musk claimed that had smoothed out rough edges with the brand after visiting its headquarters, located in the Californian town of Cupertino.