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Because one provides infrastructure as a service and the other is a two sided marketplace, completely different businesses.
by HatchedLake721 5y ago
Because one provides infrastructure as a service and the other is a two sided marketplace, completely different businesses.
- wvenable 5y agoBut if they aren't providing payment services, it is a two-sided marketplace? Also doesn't this beg the question as to why a two-sided marketplace needs to charge developers this way.
- HatchedLake721 5y agoIt's still a two-sided marketplace regardless of payment services. Two-sided marketplace can charge whatever it wants, it's their marketplace. They need to charge whatever they feel is right to make it worthwhile and provide enough value to both sides so that the marketplace can exist and grow. Apple released their marketplace over a decade ago with 30% fee. Developers ran away from Symbian, webOS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone and RIM to Android and iOS, thus proving that the charge is fair and the marketplace provides the right value for the cost to be part of it. RIM, Nokia, Palm and others tried to do something similar, burned billions, but the market (via consumers and developers) has spoken, and those companies are now history and a part of business curriculum how innovation and changing the status quo can disrupt existing markets. A decade later, after playing part in allowing Google/Apple duopoly to exist, developers now feel they have a basic human right to have access to a marketplace of billions consumers for free.