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Totally! In fact, developer share is increasing from 70% to 90% (with 10% being paid in AWS credits).

by pbreit 5y ago

thih9 5y ago
That seems a dangerous way of wording this. The market value of AWS credits is less than the equal amount in regular currency (so: 10% in AWS credits is less than 10% of the revenue). The developer share is increasing to 80% (with bonus AWS credits). Also: > You may not sell, license, rent, or otherwise transfer Promotional Credit. Promotional Credit may be applied only to your own AWS account. Promotional Credit has no intrinsic value, is not redeemable for cash, has no cash value, is nonrefundable, and serves merely as a means to provide an incentive to use our Services. Promotional Credit may not be purchased for cash, and we and our affiliates do not sell Promotional Credit. Source: https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/ https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/ And: > The AWS promotional credits can be used for 12 months from the date they were granted. Source: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/appstore/post/93e89be7-1611-4764-8f97-f4eef0a7c0e0/coming-soon-amazon-appstore-small-business-accelerator-program https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/appstore/post/93e89be7-16...
- munk-a 5y ago
  While I definitely agree that saying it's upping the take home from 70% to 90% would be misleading - in a fair number of cases that 10% credit will be pretty easy to convert to direct value. It is certainly more valuable than, say, 10% of earnings being spendable on Amazon Basic items - they're not quite trying to pull a company store trick here and the fact that 80% of revenue is take-home sales already puts a decent chunk above Apple.
  - runarberg 5y ago
    As a general labor rule, when a company gives me credit, I value that at $0. Even if this is technically wrong (it is definitely valued more) the reason for this is that the limitation imposed to how I use the value of my labor is a disingenuous negotiation tactic and I will not under any circumstances let my self by fooled by it. Therefore I treat the 10% credit as nothing more valuable then a smile or a letter of good will.
  - servercobra 5y ago
    Apple gives 85% for devs under a million/year in sales. Google as well.
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p1necone 5y ago
It's increasing to 80%, the 10% AWS credit is nice, but it's not the same thing as an actual extra 10% of revenue. Lets not forget the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store

Totally! In fact, developer share is increasing from 70% to 90% (with 10% being paid in AWS credits).

by pbreit 5y ago

Totally! In fact, developer share is increasing from 70% to 90% (with 10% being paid in AWS credits).

That seems a dangerous way of wording this. The market value of AWS credits is less than the equal amount in regular currency (so: 10% in AWS credits is less than 10% of the revenue). The developer share is increasing to 80% (with bonus AWS credits). Also: > You may not sell, license, rent, or otherwise transfer Promotional Credit. Promotional Credit may be applied only to your own AWS account. Promotional Credit has no intrinsic value, is not redeemable for cash, has no cash value, is nonrefundable, and serves merely as a means to provide an incentive to use our Services. Promotional Credit may not be purchased for cash, and we and our affiliates do not sell Promotional Credit. Source: https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/ https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/ And: > The AWS promotional credits can be used for 12 months from the date they were granted. Source: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/appstore/post/93e89be7-1611-4764-8f97-f4eef0a7c0e0/coming-soon-amazon-appstore-small-business-accelerator-program https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/appstore/post/93e89be7-16...

munk-a 5y ago
While I definitely agree that saying it's upping the take home from 70% to 90% would be misleading - in a fair number of cases that 10% credit will be pretty easy to convert to direct value. It is certainly more valuable than, say, 10% of earnings being spendable on Amazon Basic items - they're not quite trying to pull a company store trick here and the fact that 80% of revenue is take-home sales already puts a decent chunk above Apple.
- runarberg 5y ago
  As a general labor rule, when a company gives me credit, I value that at $0. Even if this is technically wrong (it is definitely valued more) the reason for this is that the limitation imposed to how I use the value of my labor is a disingenuous negotiation tactic and I will not under any circumstances let my self by fooled by it. Therefore I treat the 10% credit as nothing more valuable then a smile or a letter of good will.
- servercobra 5y ago
  Apple gives 85% for devs under a million/year in sales. Google as well.
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p1necone 5y ago

It's increasing to 80%, the 10% AWS credit is nice, but it's not the same thing as an actual extra 10% of revenue. Lets not forget the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store