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So what if it amortized? That's why Apple made that investment in the first place, so that they can make profit out of it. If any app developer tried to re-crea
by 988747 5y ago
So what if it amortized? That's why Apple made that investment in the first place, so that they can make profit out of it. If any app developer tried to re-create it now it would cost them much more than 30% of their revenue.
- kuschku 5y agoAs someone also hosting my own fdroid repo for my own apps, no, it wouldn't. You don't need most of that, and what you do need can be had extremely cheaply at 10-50€/mo + 0.2%
- zepto 5y agoNo it can’t. Almost nobody uses fdroid for good reason. It’s also simply not comparable from a business standpoint, dealing with the taxation and regulation in a hundred countries seamlessly.
- kuschku 5y agoBut what if I don’t care about that? Why should I pay extra for something I don’t care about? I don’t need the marketing, I don’t need to be featured in the front page of the store, I don’t need taxation and regulation for 100+ countries. Why should I pay for these things I don’t care about? Why can’t these be separate costs, which I could opt-in? Why can’t they be unbundled?