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Compared to the massive cut Apple takes on their app stores Microsoft's revenue split seems pretty generous. I downvoted your comment because you aren't being
by rubbingalcohol 8y ago
Compared to the massive cut Apple takes on their app stores Microsoft's revenue split seems pretty generous.
I downvoted your comment because you aren't being intellectually honest to suggest it makes sense for them to provide payment processing, update management and DRM for free to app developers when at the very least they'd be losing big on the credit card processing side. So your comment reads as an elitist jab against Microsoft and not actual constructive criticism.
- airstrike 8y agoI am being intellectually honest. Users make the platform. Microsoft should recognize they are dead last in this race and bite the bullet to provide developers with a clear incentive to develop for the MS store. Apple takes the massive cut they do in their app store because developers can't really afford not to pay for that level of access to users. One day when (IF!) Microsoft's store becomes relevant like that, they can think about what share they're entitled to Finally, but also importantly, I don't know where in God's green world you got "elitism" from... which is pretty rich coming from someone calling my comment intellectually dishonest and "not actual constructive criticism".
- drewmol 8y agoI read the comment as a suggestion to temporarily subsidise the cost of providing payment processing, update management and DRM for free to app developers in exchange for momentum/traction which I find intellectualy honest criticism of MS play. In reality this revenue sharing strategy may have evolved from temporarily subsidise into reduce our margins and landed on the 15/5 pc royalty described in this announcement.