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Apple, Google and Microsoft all charge 30%. And before Apple came along, to get your app published (J2ME days), you had to get a publisher who would take 70 to
by megablast 11y ago
Apple, Google and Microsoft all charge 30%.
And before Apple came along, to get your app published (J2ME days), you had to get a publisher who would take 70 to 80%.
- acdha 11y agoWhen J2ME was first starting, we were told something in the neighborhood of $50K per carrier just to be listed in their stores, and that wasn't fixed – it was all per-project and sounded likely to go up for a big client.
- turnip1979 11y agoYup ... I was trying to be an indie dev in the old J2ME days .. the insane fees from carriers killed the dream for me. I ended up missing the entire app store revolution since I had preconceived notions of what carriers would allow. Too early to mobile I guess :p Curious .. how did you fare?
- acdha 11y agoThat actually killed the projects we'd been talking about - we'd been doing web and Flash work for a couple of clients and they decided not to try J2ME once they heard about the pricing.
- lucaspiller 11y agoAnother similarity is ThemeForest. In their example calculation, a non exclusive author gets $36 when selling an item for $100. http://themeforest.net/become-an-author http://themeforest.net/become-an-author
- usaphp 11y agoEven if you are an exclusive author - you are only getting 50% when you start, then it grows up to 70% once I reach 75k in sales. On top of that you HAVE to provide support for all your items which nobody pays for