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A gallery offers prime-time, often times exclusive, exposure. It puts your work in front of a small, but exclusive, group of high-quality prospects and commands
by blago 6y ago
A gallery offers prime-time, often times exclusive, exposure. It puts your work in front of a small, but exclusive, group of high-quality prospects and commands their undivided attention.
Apple does no such thing. It offers no exposure in return for their fee. Once published, your app is but an anonymous drop in the sea.
- hcurtiss 6y agoTrue, but the thing they offer doesn't require thousands of humans to administer either. Renting a building downtown and staffing it with a couple sales people is very different than the army of humans curating apps and developing the software requisite to produce the polished, trusted experience people get from Apple's ecosystem.
- blago 6y agoApple's net profit margin is around 23% including hardware and everything else they do. Their app store margins are dramatically higher, possibly as much as 90%. A gallery's 40-50% commission translates to 0-50% margin after expenses and they do much more for you - exposure.