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With Apple's tax, a developer needs to sell that much a year to break even on the membership fee.
by yborg 9y ago
With Apple's tax, a developer needs to sell that much a year to break even on the membership fee.
- triangleman 9y agoThat's what I thought but wouldn't that be $165?
- pluma 9y agoHow did you end up at $165? That's $99 / 0.6, not $99 / 03. Apple's "tax" is 30%, isn't it?
- triangleman 9y ago$165 is your breakeven point where your profits after "tax" are equal to the annual fee, at which point you are in the black and making a profit on incremental sales. Oh wait that was dumb, the 30% tax means the breakeven point is $141.43. Also it seems possible now that the GP was speaking from Apple's perspective, not the developer's. Oh wait, you're the GP. Sorry, I was confused about the point of the discussion.
- dkonofalski 9y agoWouldn't that be less? Apple gets the 30%, the devs get 70% so they'd have to sell less than $330 to break even.
- pluma 9y agoIt's about Apple, not the developer. For Apple to make $99 of your sales (not accounting for taxes etc), you'd need to generate a volume of sales of which 30% would amount to $99, i.e. $99 / 0.3 = $330. If you're asking "how much does a developer need to make in sales every year to recoup their membership fee" that's different: $99 / 0.7 ≈ $142 (rounded up). But that's kinda orthogonal to Apple's interests.