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Interesting. I suppose the distinguishing factor with apps like Amazon or Home Depot is they deal in physical goods?
by danesparza 7y ago
Interesting. I suppose the distinguishing factor with apps like Amazon or Home Depot is they deal in physical goods?
- holy_city 7y agoI'm pretty sure the distinguishing factor is that Apple takes a cut of all revenue that passes through the app. That was the beef Spotify had at least.
- danesparza 7y agoHmmm ... see the other comment to my post. It sounds like this isn't entirely true. Certain apps like Amazon.com don't have to pay Apple 30% -- I buy plenty of physical goods with the Amazon app, but 30% of those sales don't go to Apple.
- xsmasher 7y agoYes. If you buy in the app and consume in the app, Apple wants their 30%. That's why you can watch videos in the amazon prime video app, but you can't rent or buy movies there. You need to rent or buy the video on Amazon.com, then you can watch on the amazon video app.