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15% is still not fair.
by varispeed 6y ago
15% is still not fair.
- HatchedLake721 6y agoAnd you calculated that how?
- varispeed 6y agoIt's a level that state would take to take care for roads, healthcare, civil service, army and so on. There is no justification for such high % to maintain an app. They could charge per app review and maybe the data transfer fee no more than Amazon S3. Anything else is Apple abusing their monopoly. Developer can't submit their app to an alternative app store because Apple doesn't allow that and it must change.
- HatchedLake721 6y ago> There is no justification for such high % to maintain an app Again, you calculated that how?
- breakfastduck 6y agoIt's not 'maintain' - its offer all the services that come along with it (integrations, store, download, hosting, authentication). If you produce a food product, you should expect the store to take a cut of the price before it gets to you.
- varispeed 6y agoThese things that you listed are not that expensive to run. If you produce a food product you can also set up your own store, but you can't in case of Apple.
- singemonkey 6y agoYou probably upvoted that guy who was sure he could build Dropbox in a weekend.
- alisonkisk 6y agoDropbox is great. But Apple bans its customers and app developers from using Dropbox as an an app delivery system.
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- viktorcode 6y agoUnlike a commercial company a state is not for-profit enterprise. Maybe you think that app stores shouldn't be for-profit marketplaces either?
- alisonkisk 6y agoThe state is not-for-profit because it is a monopoly. Like Apple.
- simonh 6y agoFor app store listing and promotion, application delivery all over the world to hundreds of millions of devices, access to back end services like notifications and iCloud storage, and sales transaction processing? Really? Imagine if you had to develop or pay for all of those services individually. Your own download site, product promotion, services, a third party transaction processor, a content delivery network, bespoke cloud syncing, etc, etc.
- varispeed 6y agoWell, the app store cannot exist without app and phone without apps is essentially worthless (unless it has at least the caller app). So who is promoting who? The so called application delivery is just a file server that anyone can setup for peanuts these days. Apple offers no alternative for notifications or storage - there is no competition so they can dictate extortionate prices. Yes many companies would love to run these services on their own, but they can't as Apple is blocking it.
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- pg_bot 6y ago30% is honestly a terrible deal as Apple does not provide the value for the money they are charging. The difference is you are forced into that arrangement you don't have the option of doing it all yourself. If you had to develop all of those services yourself, it would look a lot like the internet. None of the things you mention are particularly challenging for the modern web.
- viktorcode 6y agoI don't get "you are forced" part. If a deal is bad for you, don't take it.
- alisonkisk 6y agoThen you are a victim of Apple's tortious interference between yourself and your customers. Apple installs malware on every iDevice preventing users from installing apps they choose to purchase from 3rd parties.