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1000% this. The App Store is stagnant because Apple refuses to improve their store to where developers choose to distribute their app on the App Store. 30% may
by webbdev 6y ago
1000% this. The App Store is stagnant because Apple refuses to improve their store to where developers choose to distribute their app on the App Store. 30% may have made sense in 2008, but it certainly doesn’t make any sense in 2020.
- maguay 6y agoAuthor here. It would be interesting to imagine what Apple could offer SaaS developers that would make them want to pay the App Store a percentage. Imagine if Amazon was the dominant platform, and they were the ones charging an App Store fee, but somehow that included AWS fees as well...
- zeroimpl 6y agoA subscription fee closer to 10% starts to look attractive at least for smaller ventures. By dealing with taxes, exchange rates and credit cards, that is a fairly nice set of things to not even need to think about. But the developer APIs/processes for dealing with in-app purchases are brutal and virtually unchanged over the past 5 years.