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No, that's what the $99 a year pays for. You can create and upload a free app to the App Store and Apple gets nothing.
by donarb 6y ago
No, that's what the $99 a year pays for. You can create and upload a free app to the App Store and Apple gets nothing.
- viro 6y agoYou realize both things can pay those salaries right? Paying customers subsidizing non-paying customers is rather common. Also you know free apps have in-app purchases right?
- donarb 6y agoNot every free app has in-app purchases. My city, Seattle, has an app called Find-it, Fix-it where I can report potholes or abandoned cars. One Bus Away is an app that shows bus arrival times. I have grocery apps that show me what's on sale and give me digital coupons. None of these apps have in-app purchases.
- 8note 6y agoIf no apps had in-app purchases, there's no guarantee that Apple could still pay those salaries.
- ksec 6y agoBy Apple's definition, these Apps have not contributed anything to the App Store and Apple.
- ksec 6y agoMind Sharing the reason for downvote? That is what Apple state in their reply in multiple outlet and emails to developers.
- w0mbat 6y agoYour app helps Apple sell devices and their margins are large.
- sjwright 6y agoFewer than 1% of the apps in the store will have any effect whatsoever on Apple's hardware sales. Easily 99% of apps are long tail products that don't influence prior decision-making. AS for margins, once you factor in Apple's high spending on R&D and engineering, their margins are fairly normal. Apple are financially successful because they sell high quantities and don't chase the extreme bottom of any market. Notice for example how they don't (currently) offer any mainstream external displays.
- sjwright 6y agoInteresting how I'm being voted down here, but nobody wants to disagree with anything I said. Is what I said even remotely controversial?