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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 pro
by searchableguy 4y 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 4y agoApp 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 4y agoWhen 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 4y agooff by an order of magnitude. 20 million by $99 is 2 billion, which is >4% of the net income.
- scarface74 4y agoWhich 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.