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Two things. First, it is really troubling if Apple wants to impose a tax on transactions between app users. Tipping is used often in China (for example, in the
by cefstat 9y ago
Two things. First, it is really troubling if Apple wants to impose a tax on transactions between app users. Tipping is used often in China (for example, in the form of "red envelopes" at Chinese New Year) and a 30% cut for Apple is simply incomprehensible and downright immoral. Second, the day that WeChat gets out of the App Store is the day that Apple becomes irrelevant in China. If the story is true, I am afraid somebody at Apple has not thought this thing through.
- valuearb 9y agoApple doesn't charge for person to person transfers, or buying physical goods. They only charge if you are selling digital products (apps, features, content) through the App Store. Just those things that cost Apple to store and transfer.
- Oletros 9y agoApple doesn't store and transfer any in app store purchases, nor hey store or transfer any subscription
- valuearb 9y agoApple stores and transfers all of the apps that make purchases and subscriptions. Trillions upon trillions of bytes.
- Oletros 9y agoYou must be joking.
- valuearb 9y agoDo you really think WeChat pays Apple for the file transfers for hundreds of millions of copies of WeChat to customer iPhones every month (when you include updates). Essentially at least 100 Megabytes times 100 to 200 million a month.
- firloop 9y agoApple has been doing diff updates for a while, meaning that the actual bandwidth consumed for updates is most likely much less than 100mb https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index...
- valuearb 9y agoEven with diffs it's a huge cost.
- Oletros 9y agoYes, they pay with they developer account. If you don't like it, please, tell Apple (or Google) that bandwidth has to be paid. Until then, it is irrelevant if the app is 10kb or it is downloaded 12.000.000.000 times.
- valuearb 9y agoIt's entirely relevant. That 30% pays the costs of the app store, and bandwidth is probably the biggest cost of running the app store. Please show me where Apple says the $99 I pay every year pays for their Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Operating costs of running the app store and getting me customers.
- Oletros 9y agoPlease, show me were the bandwith has to be paid. Until then, it is irrelevant if an app is 1kb or 1gb
- valuearb 9y agoYou really believe someone is going to host a store for free where you get to distribute as many copies of whatever you want? I guarantee bandwidth has to be paid for. If Apple doesn't write that check the App store ceases to exist.