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CTOnews.com, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blamed Apple's App Store policy for destroying dreams and entrepreneurship, referring specifically to Apple's policy of charging a 30 percent commission on in-app purchases by developers earning more than $1 million a year.

Pavel Durov wrote on his Telegram channel that Apple has informed the messaging platform that content creators will not be allowed to use third-party payments for sales. Telegram allows content creators to provide access to channels or personal posts through a paywall, a blocking system that prevents non-paying users from browsing web content, and users can pay through third-party payments, rather than Apple's in-app purchase system.

Durov said Apple was "not satisfied with the profitability of content creators without paying a 30 per cent commission" and Telegram had no choice but to ban paid posts and channels on its iOS app. "this is just another example of how a multimillion-dollar monopoly can abuse its market dominance at the expense of millions of users who are trying to make their content profitable," Durov said.

Durov blames Apple for destroying dreams and crushing entrepreneurs with its App Store commission, which requires Apple to charge Apple a 15 or 30 per cent commission on most in-app purchase taxes. Durov called on regulators in the European Union, India and around the world to "start taking action".

The full text of Durov is as follows:

Some content creators are using third-party payment robots to sell the right to use personal posts on their Telegram channels. In this way, content creators can receive nearly 100% of users' fees, which is good.

Unfortunately, we received news from Apple that they were dissatisfied with the fact that content creators were profitable without paying 30% of the tax to Apple. Because Apple has complete control over its ecosystem, we have no choice but to disable such paid posts on iOS devices.

This is just another example of how a multimillion-dollar monopoly has abused its market dominance at the expense of millions of users trying to make their content profitable. I hope regulators in the EU, India and elsewhere will start taking action to prevent Apple from destroying more dreams and crushing more entrepreneurs with higher VAT than any government levies.

At the same time, we at Telegram will strive to provide creators with powerful and easy-to-use tools to commercialize their content-outside of Apple's restrictive ecosystem.

CTOnews.com learned that this is not the first time Durov has criticized Apple. In August, the CEO attacked Apple's "obscure" App Store rules.

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