Makes me think that at some point showing a restaurant menu with prices is soon going to get the ire of Apple for suggesting an offline monetization that they aren’t a part of.
Apple collects 0.15% of all credit card transactions made through Apple Pay for US-based cards. The percentage is higher for the Apple Card, of course.
Of course they’ll take 0. You do realize that Google is in the business of harboring as much data about you as possible. It’s much more worthwhile for them to know what you’re buying than for them to take a cut from using Google pay.
They take a cut from the banks (which may or may not be passed onto the retailer, I'm not sure).
Individual retailers do not form an agreement with Apple. Hell, retailers often don't even explicitly and individually support Apple Pay, it just comes through accepting standard contactless payments.
Lots of people don't think "digital" things are real, which lets Apple get away with putting 30% tax on an increasingly large part of the economy.
You can sell a paper book, but an e-book gets 30% Apple tax. You can sell a CD, but an MP3 gets Apple tax. You can sell Carcasone game on cardboard pieces, but an app version must give Apple a cut.
