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You can still kill something that you start. I think what they’re saying it’s now a lot harder for indie developers. Sure if you’re Instagram or FB you’re OK (
by jonplackett 5y ago
You can still kill something that you start.
I think what they’re saying it’s now a lot harder for indie developers. Sure if you’re Instagram or FB you’re OK (though even those companies take issue with the 30%)
They just haven’t looked after smaller developers. The introduction of paid search ads was just so hostile to anyone without a massive budget - or rather anyone without a high lifetime value per user, making initial outlay on acquisition make sense. All it does is incentivise this dumb model of free apps with endless sneaky bullshit in—app purchases.
Or, worse, the new subscription-everything. I don’t want to pay a monthly subscription for a god damn gif editing app! I just want to buy it and that be that. But this is now rife.
The $1 / $2 app model was pretty good by comparison IMHO