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> Store's often have markup's of 30% or greater As someone who’s worked on products sold via Amazon, Walmart, Target, Apple Retail, Microsoft Retail, Sharper I
by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Store's often have markup's of 30% or greater
As someone who’s worked on products sold via Amazon, Walmart, Target, Apple Retail, Microsoft Retail, Sharper Image, and many more, all I can say is developers have it great with Apple.
1) if you think Apple’s review process is arbitrary and constrictive, try getting into retail!
2) if you think 30% cut is bad, try getting into retail! Want to sell for a lower price on your website? Nope!
3) want to set the price for your product? With Amazon you might not even get that, they can arbitrarily decide to raise or lower your price with little to no warning.
4) think it’s bad that you can get yanked out of the App Store suddenly, try retail! Same happens there, and worse.
Please don’t dismiss this as a “what about” reply, I’m trying to instead show this is a much bigger societal problem than just one vendor and one marketplace. Sure, we need to start somewhere, but is Apple really the one that should be targeted first?