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Apple gets at least $99 per year plus device sales and usage data if it's an app. They also get to sell App Store ads to competing banks.

• scarface74 5y ago
  $99 a year is a nothingburger. It wouldn’t even move the needle enough to motivate them. That’s not even pure profit. But the money they make on ads in the App Store has to pale in comparison to how much they get from Google
  • TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    > nothingburger What the heck is a nothingburger?
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  • searchableguy 5y ago
    Apple said there are 20 million registered developers in 2018. Now there must be more but $99 * 20 million is not nothing in annual revenue which is mostly profit.
    • scarface74 5y ago
      App review, XCode, each app gets a certain amount of iCloud storage outside of what the user pays, bandwidth, etc. A “registered developer” is not necessarily a “paying developer”, you can register as a developer to get documentation etc. If you are working for a company creating an app, not all developers need to pay to publish an app. Also Mac developers don’t pay to distribute an app.
    • brokencode 5y ago
      When their annual revenue is $368 billion and their net income is $95 billion (in 2021), a couple hundred million dollars doesn’t really move the needle.
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      • hackerfromthefu 5y ago
        off by an order of magnitude. 20 million by $99 is 2 billion, which is >4% of the net income.
        • scarface74 5y ago
          Which is still not accurate, most “registered developers” aren’t “paying developers”. If you have a company with 100 iOS developers, you only need to pay for one account that has permission to submit an app. If you are exclusively a Mac developer, you don’t have to pay anything unless you are submitting to the Mac App Store.
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