App Store Small Business Program
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App Store Small Business Program
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#2This is a great step forward. The extra 15% will make the difference between survival or not for a lot of small/solo developers.
Valve next, please.
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#3What an interesting new development, this generates tons of goodwill from smaller devs while sticking it to multimillion dollar companies that were pushing the hardest to get Apple to change their fee structure.
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#4This is a great step forward. The extra 15% will make the difference between survival or not for a lot of small/solo developers. Valve next, please.
We've already got the Epic Games Store that takes 10%, so no need to have Valve be next.
Valve will eventually align themselves though, this is what happens in an healthy market.
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#5Associated Developer Accounts? It is hard to draw the line here. I have 2 company with different partners. It is so vague if I should add associated developer accounts or not.
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#6Am I reading this right that there's a big cliff between making $999,999 and $1M? With that and the somewhat fuzzy notion of "associated accounts", I predict a lot of ugly rules-gaming & enforcement activity in the future.
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#7What an interesting new development, this generates tons of goodwill from smaller devs while sticking it to multimillion dollar companies that were pushing the hardest to get Apple to change their fee structure.
Hahahahahahahaha
Apple bans competition from the App store, charges tremendous fees from hardware, to software, to access.
All while denying hardware issues and security issues.
This is nothing more than Ammo for Apple apologists.
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#8This is a great step forward. The extra 15% will make the difference between survival or not for a lot of small/solo developers. Valve next, please.
We've already got the Epic Games Store that takes 10%, so no need to have Valve be next. Valve will eventually align themselves though, this is what happens in an healthy market.
I am not sure if the market is healthy, though. GOG and other alternative stores didn't take off. While Epic has their strategy of giving away some free games to attract traffic, I am not sure how well that translates to actual purchases. If a customer has a choice between buying a game at the same price between two stores, they're going to stick to the one which they already use and have a big library on. And even though Steam's community features are anemic, people do get SOME value from having friends on Steam that own the same game and so on. I think it'll be hard for Epic to crack this one.
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#9Am I reading this right that there's a big cliff between making $999,999 and $1M? With that and the somewhat fuzzy notion of "associated accounts", I predict a lot of ugly rules-gaming & enforcement activity in the future.
No, you are reading it wrong. All money up to $1 million is "taxed" at 15%, and all money after $1 million is "taxed" at 30%. It's like income tax brackets in the US.
Thus, there is no advantage for trying to stay at $999,999. If you make $1.2m in sales, you get 15% taken on the $1m and 30% taken from the leftover $200k.
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#10good move, now it's time to get rid of the $100 yearly developer fee, which is absurd.