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Everyone is quoting 30%. For the majority of apps it's 15%. That commission is not a payment processing fee, it's very clearly a platform commission as has be
by olliej 5y ago
Everyone is quoting 30%.
For the majority of apps it's 15%.
That commission is not a payment processing fee, it's very clearly a platform commission as has been common in the industry for 30-40 years at this point.
All this (and the similar rulings elsewhere) seem to confirm is that
* A developer can use their own preferred payment processor
* A developer still has to pay the platform commission
Finally, no one in their right mind should think that even if there was a reduction in commission that prices would decrease. We already have direct evidence: Both Google and Apple dropped platform commission to 15% for the vast majority of apps and there was no reduction in app prices. Additionally it is common sense: app devs already know that you will pay X for an app, if they get an arbitrary reduction in expenses through any mechanism why would they reduce their prices? This is the same flaw present in trickle-down economics. The price for anything is determined by what the market will bare, not the cost of production - this is as true for an app, as it is for an NFT, as it is for a banana.
- bagacrap 5y agomy economics 101 teacher would argue that a reduction in cost would encourage certain app makers to seek greater market share by undercutting their competitors. Unless competing app makers collude, prices should be loosely based on cost.