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Imagine if AWS, Azure, Gcloud were charging for your VMs a % of your business revenue… AppStores are services, they should have a fixed price like any other ser
by obert 5y ago
Imagine if AWS, Azure, Gcloud were charging for your VMs a % of your business revenue… AppStores are services, they should have a fixed price like any other service, and that can cover also variable costs like cents per download, cents per review, etc
- ehsankia 5y agoYou're paying for compute, whereas you can put an app on a store for (basically) free. A million people can download your app and you wouldn't pay a penny more, whereas if a million people suddenly used your AWS app, you'd see a nice bump in cost.
- obert 5y agoas per my previous comment, they could charge a fixed price per view/download and any other functionality of the app store. It would be the same price for everyone, regardless of revenue, and for most apps, it would be less, fairer, and more transparent
- ehsankia 5y agoIt could be an option, but there is also value for everyone, poor or rich, no matter in what country, being able to host an app, no matter no popular, without going bankrupt. It's the same with Youtube; the ad-model is not ideal, but there is also value to being able to, with the click of a button, host a video that can be watched by millions of people without you paying a penny. Two decades ago that would've been very hard for an average person to do.
- jasongi 5y agoCompute likely is a rough function of business revenue though.
- obert 5y agowith the same amount of compute power one can run a successful business and earn $100M or something not successful and earn $100K. The compute cost is the same, compute does not become more or less expensive just because one makes more or less money with it.