i don’t know that you can trust Apple to be very principled about this distinction. They let Netflix and Spotify get away with circumventing, and planned for a while to treat subscriptions for physical services like digital goods. x.com/techemails/s... 1/

as far as i can tell they are not charging the 30% to rideshare services for individual rides, although i haven’t been able to find details about eg if you pay for Bolt in Europe via Apple Pay. you might ask Cory Doctorow though, i suspect there’s a particular case behind his claim. /fin