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Huh. All market places charge this 30% though, right? The Amazon Fire/Music stores and Google Play all take ~30%. (If you really want to support a band, BandCam
by djsumdog 7y ago
Huh. All market places charge this 30% though, right? The Amazon Fire/Music stores and Google Play all take ~30%. (If you really want to support a band, BandCamp only takes 15%).
Could this open the floodgates for finally getting rid of ridiculous commissions for digital works of these digital stores? I don't think Amazon/Google/Apple will really hurt that much if this becomes the case, and creators could early quite a bit more for their works.
Or is this case very limited to Apple and their monopoly based on their control of Apple devices?
- q3k 7y agoYou can sideload applications and/or other app stores on Android phones. In addition, Google does not nearly have as much vertical control as Apple (from Hardware to Software Distribution).
- chomp 7y agoYou can install 3rd party app stores on Android devices. Apple forces all developers to only use their app store, and then makes them pay 30%.
- xxs 7y agoAndroid can side load, use alternative stores. Samsung phones for instance have Samsung store (Galaxy) as well.
- louhike 7y agoDoes the 30% take into account the transfer fee ? Because as an artist, this is a supplementary charge in Bandcamp. So I actually receive 77.5% on a 10€ sale. It's better than 30%, but it's not 15%.
- emmp 7y agoAt I understand, this specifically affects Apple because there is no possible alternative marketplace on iOS. As much as Google sets up roadblocks to installing apps outside of Google Play, it's still straightforwardly possible to install FDroid or the Epic Store or whatever you want. I don't know much about Amazon's Android fork, but I assume it's possible to sideload an appstore there too (though I could be wrong).