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> Rent seeking app stores App stores are not rent seeking. They created a market (and in some cases a platform) for you to sell to. Being able to sell your pro
by vacri 11y ago
> Rent seeking app stores
App stores are not rent seeking. They created a market (and in some cases a platform) for you to sell to. Being able to sell your product with only 30% overhead is something previously unheard of in retail.
If you want to get 100% of the money, then you're welcome to build your own sales system and generate trust with it, deal with bad creditors yourself, deal with maintenance and artefact distribution in a secure, scaled manner... the list goes on and on.
Go and ask some farmers if they'd feel hard done by if they got 70% of the final purchase price of their produce.
- oblio 11y agoPhysical retail and digital retail are wildly different.
- vacri 11y agoMy second paragraph was crafted just for you, then! Really, it's not all that different. You have the same groups - a distributor and a shopfront. Sometimes these are the same (apple's app store) sometimes not (a games publisher managing your game on steam). You generate the primary product, and it goes through a middleman or two on the way to the end-user. And just like a farmer, you can sell your own product yourself and walk away with 100% of the cash. But like the farmer's shack by the side of the road, you don't get as much market penetration with your product on your own website - people have to come to you or stumble across you, instead of just get your stuff at the supermarket where they usually shop. Yes, there are differences, but no, they're not wildly different. You make something and want to sell it. People offer services to help you sell it. You give them some of the money in order to sell more product. 30% is really low overhead.