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Pay to be promoted in search? Ugh. How about offer a portion of credits out of the 30% cut to go toward search/category promotions. Or lower the cut taken. Or o
by bobwaycott 11y ago
Pay to be promoted in search? Ugh. How about offer a portion of credits out of the 30% cut to go toward search/category promotions. Or lower the cut taken. Or offer a choice between the two, plus an additional means for buying ads. But digging further into the 70% devs are pocketing before taxes? Lame. And paid promotion seems like it's already going to make the App Store even more awful for users and smaller developers.
- dijit 11y ago30% sounds a lot, especially before tax. but if we take a lesson from the games industry, we know that 30% is what valve takes.. and what Sony/Microsoft takes. Not to mention the up front cost of the verification (which is a significant amount of money honestly, Apple's is minuscule by comparison). But for that money Sony/Microsoft/Valve will not promote your product, they will simply be available for the platform. I'm not sure how the Play store works of course, but my point is that marketing budget and release "tax" are separate.