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> Do you not believe there is a significant ongoing cost relating to the Apple store? Bandwidth, storage, CDN, power and HVAC for equipment, other building / da
by joshspankit 6y ago
> Do you not believe there is a significant ongoing cost relating to the Apple store? Bandwidth, storage, CDN, power and HVAC for equipment, other building / data centre costs, IT staff for maintaining the servers and services, developers to develop the store and maintain Apple's side of the arms race between malicious devs trying to fool Apple's automated checking and Apple trying to detect and prevent malicious apps being uploaded, other miscellaneous overheads (accounting, auditors, etc.)... why should they be prevented from collecting taxes to cover the costs?
Even Amazon’s S3, which is arguably one of the more expensive places to store data (and which covers all of Amazon’s overhead plus a healthy profit) is $0.023 per GB. Even the cheapest paid app/IAP is $.99, which gives Apple $.33, and is likely 100-200MB. In the 8GB case, that’s still $0.184 and there are a lot of potential IAPs to “make up costs” and use 0 bandwidth.
When you run the actual math, it’s very hard to argue for “massive ongoing costs” and “significant burden”, especially when Epic has said that they would host and distribute the files entirely themselves if given the ability.