Forced To Remove Paid Bot On Its Platform, CEO Of Telegram Kecam Apple Because Of This!

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JAKARTA - Many content creators or users have started using third-party payment bots to sell access to every post on their Telegram channels.

"In this way, content creators can receive nearly 100 percent of anything their customers pay, which is very good," Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said in a post on his Telegram channel, quoted Monday, October 31.

However, the young entrepreneur said he was forced to close the service because he received news from Apple revealing they were not happy with it.

"Unfortunately, we received news from Apple that they are unhappy with content creators monetizing their efforts without paying a 30 percent tax to Apple," he said.

Apple does have a policy where the company has full control over its ecosystem. Tech giants will cut commissions by 30 percent over sales of digital goods or services.

The company's App Store fees have also been the target of criticism from many angles, including news publishers, Spotify and, as well as the most famous game streaming platform, Epic Games.

With this news, Durov criticized Apple. He claims that it is a monopoly that abuses its market at the expense of millions of users who are trying to monetize their own content.

Durov expressed his hope that regulators in various jurisdictions could take swifter action on the issues that many complained about.

"I hope regulators in the EU, India, and elsewhere start taking action before Apple destroys more dreams and destroys more businessmen with higher taxes than government-supplied VAT," he concluded.

Telegram CEO added that his team is looking for ways to give makers easy-to-use options to make money from their content. He aims to help them do it "outside Apple's limited ecosystem."