Good news: I have enabled donations. I remembered I set up a Stripe account over the weekend for my non-Apple-related Substack, so implementing that took all of about 5 minutes. I’ve set the price at $10 per year. Let me know if that seems like a reasonable amount. Unfortunately, Stripe makes me set up a different “product” for each possible donation amount, so I wanted to keep it simple.
However, I must say: please become a TidBITS member first. Your membership funds everything we do here, including my salary as managing editor, Adam’s salary, fees for contributors like Julio, etc. Your TidBITS membership will have much more impact than your Apple Buying Advice donation.
That said, you can donate to Apple Buying Advice here. That link is also available on the home page. If you are a crypto person, you can find BTC and ETH addresses on my about page.
Bad news: Stripe’s Apple Pay integration is not yet enabled due to an error. I have been in touch with Stripe support and they are as flummoxed as I am. I am hoping they can fix it soon (Stripe has an excellent reputation). But in the meantime, it’s a huge bummer since Apple Pay is so painless, at least from the user end, and you miss out on that extra 10 cents of Apple Card cashback per year.
Before you donate, please understand:
- This is a donation and I can’t offer anything in return other than trying to keep the site running. I work on this site in my spare time so I can’t always fix and update things as quickly as I would like.
- While I’m always open to feedback, and I’ve been responsive to it, all decisions about the site are ultimately mine and mine alone.
Again, thanks for the huge response! Traffic has been crazy and I’m shocked and impressed Bluehost has managed to keep up.