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- It seems like collusion that both of them keep the cut at 30% for more than 10 years - It doesn't cost them that much anymore. Their cut is absurdly high. Fo

- It seems like collusion that both of them keep the cut at 30% for more than 10 years - It doesn't cost them that much anymore. Their cut is absurdly high. For apple it was a profit of 21.7 Billion last year from other people's apps , in exchange for whatever minor changes they made to their app store. Does it really cost even 1 Billion to keep the app store running? - They should be more transparent about their numbers. How much does an app developer make? Their opaqueness is self-serving (attracting developers to work for them in the dark, basically). Their PR machine (like the article i 'm linking) is too loud and i believe misleads developers regarding what to expect from app revenue. - Freedom is a benefit for the consumer, apple has way too many restrictions on the kind of apps i can have on my iphone. Whether it benefits the consumer or not is highly debateable. - The lock-in of developers is real, it's built with dirty tricks, and i pity those devs who are bound by it. https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-revenue-2018/ https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-reven...

oeoeo00 7y ago
You’re boxing it out too tightly by considering just the App Store costs. Apple and Google have basically built the entire modern smartphone industry. You think it costs devs a lot now? What’s it look like if Samsung, LG, etc also all have app stores? Devs get quite a bit from targeting two. And really it’s devs supporting these app stores. They could go and build apps for other operating systems in a show of revolt. All those games could go to Epic or Steam? Dirty tricks. The dirty trick is the same old: society programs people to make money. Not live their life in an egalitarian way. This forum is all free market! Y’all are the market, in the only context Adam Smith described it: a labor market of doers. Don’t do for them if it doesn’t work for you. No dev is obligated to build in their sandbox.

oeoeo00 7y ago

You’re boxing it out too tightly by considering just the App Store costs. Apple and Google have basically built the entire modern smartphone industry. You think it costs devs a lot now? What’s it look like if Samsung, LG, etc also all have app stores? Devs get quite a bit from targeting two. And really it’s devs supporting these app stores. They could go and build apps for other operating systems in a show of revolt. All those games could go to Epic or Steam? Dirty tricks. The dirty trick is the same old: society programs people to make money. Not live their life in an egalitarian way. This forum is all free market! Y’all are the market, in the only context Adam Smith described it: a labor market of doers. Don’t do for them if it doesn’t work for you. No dev is obligated to build in their sandbox.