Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year

Post by Sohcahtoa82 » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 12:10 AM UTC

sidlls wrote: post #267

giantg2 wrote: post #187

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Or maybe I released it as free software.

Application software such as this shouldn’t be free. It hides the true cost to developers from consumers and, if they’re ad supported hooks into one of the most insidious, malicious systems we’ve ever devised. I won’t work on free software. I have too much respect for myself, my family, and my colleagues to do that.

> I won’t work on free software. I have too much respect for myself, my family, and my colleagues to do that.

This is a strange attitude for me to see on HN, considering how much most of us love FOSS.

I can understand saying you don't have the time, or simply aren't interested, but to frame it as having "too much respect for myself" seems arrogant and spits in the face of the people who have written major software used in servers around the world.

Post by robertlagrant » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

fomine3 wrote: post #321

robertlagrant wrote: post #262

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I think this is an over-attribution of this cost. Even if you release the same app for nothing, and that cost went away, your overwhelming cost would still be your time, and the value of that time. $8.33/mo isn't even a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. What it does do is pay for all the app store infrastructure, IDE development, etc etc, so your choice to release something for nothing doesn't externalise…

It's cost but sometimes it's fun for developer and makes resume/GitHub/fame good. Paying $100 isn't fun or good for anyone.

The same reasoning applies for time and money. It's all the same. $100 + $10000 worth of time to make resume/GitHub/fame moves. The $100 is minimal.

Re: Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year

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