In the past, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has repeatedly criticized the "Apple tax," which is as high as 30 percent.

Meta recently announced that it will be testing a new set of tools on its Horizon Worlds meta-universe platform that will allow some creators to profit from selling digital assets on the platform.

However, Meta will take a high percentage of the creators' income. For WEB and mobile users, Meta takes a 25% commission. Meta takes a whopping 47.5% commission for users who enter through OculusVR headsets.

This not only caused the developer's anger, but also attracted the "ridicule" of competitors.

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Several VR app developers told the press that they were frustrated with Meta, which was seen as an early leader in a metasurverse platform, for insisting on a charging model for its VR app store similar to that found on smartphones today.

Seth Siegel, global head of AI and cybersecurity at Infosys Consulting, says:

"Don't confuse marketing with reality, Meta picking on Apple is marketing, but that doesn't mean Meta won't do exactly the same thing."

Earlier, Apple spokesman Fred Sainz said in an email:

"Meta has repeatedly argued that The 30% commission Apple charges developers for in-app purchases on the App Store is too high. Now, Meta is trying to charge these developers a lot more than other platforms,Meta's announcement exposes Meta's hypocrisy.”

Apple added: "This shows that while Meta seeks to use Apple's platform for free, they are happy to generate revenue from creators and small businesses using their platform."

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Meta's VR/AR technology lead and CTO Andrew Bosworth, also known as Boz, responded with a series of tweets on Thursday.

Boz says the commission rate for the Web version is 25%, which is much lower than other virtual world platforms. And VR version of the commission rate of 47.5%, not higher than Robolx and YouTube.

Boz also criticized Apple, saying that while the Oculus app Store and iOS store both take a 30% commission, Meta heavily subsidized Quest devices to make the hardware available to more people, while Apple makes a lot of money from the hardware and benefits from the software. Boz says Meta's approach has led developers to see success on the QuestStore -- more than 120 games have generated over $1 million in revenue.

But Lyron Bentovim, chief executive of Glimpse Group, an immersive experience Group, was critical of the Quest store. "Buying stuff at Quest is a pain, much worse than buying it on An Apple or Android store," he said.