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> The 30% cut they ask of developers is more than reasonable. If only we could prove this. Ie, is Apple honestly selling $1,200 phones for a loss such that the
by asdkhadsj 8y ago
> The 30% cut they ask of developers is more than reasonable.
If only we could prove this. Ie, is Apple honestly selling $1,200 phones for a loss such that they need to recoup money from the App Store to turn a profit? If they didn't take the %30 cut, would they still be profitable?
I'm not proving a point, simply asking questions I'm curious about. Would be neat if we knew these answers.
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- s73v3r_ 8y agoNeither one of those questions is relevant, though.
- asdkhadsj 8y agoHow so? The comment I was replying to was calling 30% unnecessary/unreasonable. However, that's quite the relative statement, no? If (with an obviously fake example) 30% allowed them to break even, who would call that unreasonable? I feel like the idea of what is reasonable or not is entirely dependent on how much profit they're making. For ease of discussion, I think it would be very reasonable if customer costs reflected operational costs. Ie, sell the phone for just a bit over phone costs (including R&D/etc), sell iCloud for a bit over operating costs, sell App Store usage for a bit over operating costs, etc. All of that would be very reasonable, no? So what is reasonable and what is not reasonable seems entirely to do with how much profit they're turning. Which of course, as my question asks, is nearly impossible to understand from the outside.