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Wouldn't it be interesting if Apple offered some kind of compromise and made it more like a warehousing scheme? "Okay, instead of 30% we will take 0%. In retu
by joezydeco 7y ago
Wouldn't it be interesting if Apple offered some kind of compromise and made it more like a warehousing scheme?
"Okay, instead of 30% we will take 0%. In return, you owe us $x/month to store your app on our servers and CDNs, then $y per download to deliver it onto the phone. And $z per query to show up in the search engine.
And we'll need $10,000 up front on deposit to make sure you don't skate on the bill."
- zepto 7y agoThere is a lot more than a CDN and a stored download.
- joezydeco 7y agoBeing abstract here, but you get the idea. "We'll also need $50/hour to review the app...no upper bound on the time..."
- panpanna 7y agoThat would not be fair either. Remember the time apple placed Spotify app on review-limbo for months when they were to announce Apple music?
- joezydeco 7y agoThat's the root philosophical argument of this whole thing, which we will be arguing about with bad metaphors and mismatched analogies for the next 2-3 years by my estimates.
- zepto 7y agoDo we know what the actual root of that ‘in review’ period was? It’s entirely possible that Spotify was trying to get Apple to change a store policy during that time, perhaps even with the threat of an antitrust complaint that they are now following through on. You can make it sound like Apple is the bad guy abusing its store policies, but it’s equally the case that Spotify is just trying to leverage a few obvious features that into a giant payout through legal bullying.
- basch 7y agoHow about the equivalent of billboard rental space for being shown in search and related listings? Apple built an app store, it built a reputation for its app store, and now its featuring your app. And then there is engineering costs for the toolkits, compilers, libraries that are being used to create the binaries they publish. And not a stagnant toolkit, but the expectation that the toolkits evolve. So Engineering as a Service rent fees.