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27% is still absolutely insane.
Why? 27% is charged in many places. Digital and physical.
Dating apps subscriptions are no different from in game content as well - it's same dynamics and even gamifying everything.
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Why? 27% is charged in many places. Digital and physical.
Credit card processing is 3.5-4.5%, dating apps are higher risk so let's say a bit higher, but it literally is 20%. Dating apps subscriptions are no different from in game content as well - it's same dynamics and even gamifying everything.
If you don't agree with their fee structure you're welcome to distribute elsewhere.
Steve Troughton-Smith: > Absolutely vile. This says everything about @tim_cook’s Apple and what it thinks of developers. I hope the company gets exactly what it deserves. Everybody on their executive team should be ashamed, and some of them should not be here when it’s all over. We all see you > We’ve been told that if Apple ever asked its employees to betray their principles, they’d leave. In a similar vein, everybo…
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Why? 27% is charged in many places. Digital and physical.
Credit card processing is 3.5-4.5%, dating apps are higher risk so let's say a bit higher, but it literally is 20%. Dating apps subscriptions are no different from in game content as well - it's same dynamics and even gamifying everything.
The 27% is not for payment processing, but for the platform. You'll be paying 30% on almost any platform. It has been like this for ages, and is even higher in different industries.. Any publishing deal, book, music, movies, games.. But look at your average retailer. They want a markup. And their distributor wants a markup..
There's a reason why Elon Musk wants to do the complete vertical for spacex...
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Credit card processing is 3.5-4.5%, dating apps are higher risk so let's say a bit higher, but it literally is 20%. Dating apps subscriptions are no different from in game content as well - it's same dynamics and even gamifying everything.
And so Apple should just eat the cost of app store servers and the hardware they developed to run the software? If you don't agree with their fee structure you're welcome to distribute elsewhere.
Android does. For now.
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And so Apple should just eat the cost of app store servers and the hardware they developed to run the software? If you don't agree with their fee structure you're welcome to distribute elsewhere.
Apple doesn't allow side loading unless you're jail broken. Android does. For now.
Steve Troughton-Smith: > Absolutely vile. This says everything about @tim_cook’s Apple and what it thinks of developers. I hope the company gets exactly what it deserves. Everybody on their executive team should be ashamed, and some of them should not be here when it’s all over. We all see you > We’ve been told that if Apple ever asked its employees to betray their principles, they’d leave. In a similar vein, everybo…
And I say this as someone that has known/worked with people that were/are currently at Apple - so I know they have smart people working there, that must be thinking along similar veins I'm sure.
[1] My own personal opinion about Apple's management; doesn't mean I hold current non-management employees at Apple to those standards.