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You could give Devs two options A) Give me X% of revenue, and I will give you free hosting of your app, and some form of promotion. B) No commission, but you
by javchz 5y ago
You could give Devs two options
A) Give me X% of revenue, and I will give you free hosting of your app, and some form of promotion.
B) No commission, but you host your own binaries. To be a valid installable app, you need to give me a hash of the binary valid to install, that I have approved before. Each audit of binaries cost X. No promotion for free in the app store.
- themacguffinman 5y agoThe main problem with Option B is the potential for bad/inconsistent app download experiences. Many companies may cheap out on binary hosting and have very slow or broken downloads (especially in certain countries), which results in a kind of random "never know if this will work well" patchy UX for iOS/Android users at large. This isn't an insurmountable problem of course. Perhaps Apple/Google could charge fixed bandwidth rates and host it themselves, or they could contractually set SLA requirements that could be verified regularly with an uptime service.