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I'm curious to estimate how much google's app store revenue would be decreased by this change in fee structure. Can anyone share accurate statistics on the dist
by shoo 6y ago
I'm curious to estimate how much google's app store revenue would be decreased by this change in fee structure. Can anyone share accurate statistics on the distribution of app revenue per google play developer?
I'm not familiar with the app dev business. There's a 2016 post from Mike Sonders about ios and android game revenue [1] that suggests that app revenue is extremely skewed, to the extent that 0.3% of apps in the category of top 500 action games accrue over 90% of the revenue. I.e. the top 1 or top 2 games out of the _top 500 games_ in the category get 90% of the revenue.
If the same relationship holds for other categories, that suggests that the bottom 99.7% of the app distribution accounts for at most 10% of play store revenue, so cutting fees by 50% for the bottom 99% of developers would reduce google's rake by at most 5%.
[1] https://medium.com/@sm_app_intel/a-bunch-of-average-app-revenue-data-and-why-you-should-ignore-it-2bea283d37fc https://medium.com/@sm_app_intel/a-bunch-of-average-app-reve...