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WOW, that is a gross reversal of the sales model. I thought Apple had a warped sense of their role but here you believe that Apple is entitled to 100% of the sales from the developers apps, and are graciously paying the devs 70% of money Apple is entitled to, instead of the reality that Apple is taking 30% of the revenue from Developers for the "privilege" of access to consumers that already paid apple thousands of d…
Apples App Store service does far more than payment processing, and it’s disingenuous to compare them to one. They host and distribute petabytes of data. They have a large team hosting and maintain marketing sites for developers in dozens of languages all over the world. Another team develops and distributes mobile apps for store access in all those languages. They have a large team providing developer support and de…
Many devs would disagree with you here, Apple Dev support while better than Google is not much better. It is normal large faceless company with impersonal legal responses not customer service
>>They host and distribute petabytes of data. ... They do all these things for free if you distribute free apps ...
Ohh cry me a river... They made that choose so they could CONTROL the echosystem, they then can not turn around and claim this a bullshit justification for their fee extortion. They do not give anyone the option to use anything other than apple for app distribution so no I will not give them points for this
>but also clearly it wouldn’t be able to remotely cover these costs at 5%, their break even is closer to 15%.
Show me the money.... Show me the citation for that claim
>>Developers long for the day some government or court will force Apple to reduce their profit share
I long for the day when the government or courts ban Close ecosystems and stop allowing companies treat a product they SOLD to customers as if they still own it there by merely renting it out