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If Apple didn’t generate a sizable profit from the App Store, would they really be bothered to keep making changes to the silicon and APIs that make developers
by judge2020 4y ago
If Apple didn’t generate a sizable profit from the App Store, would they really be bothered to keep making changes to the silicon and APIs that make developers apps run faster? It’s a genuine question; a good chunk of the A15 is dedicated to machine learning and Apple makes available a wide array of new APIs that almost seem pre-baked, eg this[0], and yet all a single iOS developer pays for in the $100 yearly fee is maybe 1 hour of an engineer’s time.
Apple may make a large chunk of profit from the iPhone (which only comes from scale, mind you; 1 new iPhone would cost a million dollars to make but 100M copies of a new iPhones only costs ~$40B to make), but the solution can’t be “App Store revenue drops 99%” (which would certainly happen; why would anyone stay with IAP and not switch to PayPal or stripe for a <5% fee?).
0: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/10127 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/10127
- blablablerg 4y agoThat is the argument most monopolies make. Look at all the good things I am doing! I might not do them if I make less money! (While swimming in money and spending a fraction to R&D) Same can be said about the customers: they could've spend the 30% on things that are better for their life.
- kaba0 4y agoThe problem is not AppStore-downloaded app using AppStore for IAP, it is that I am not able to download anything I would deem necessary on my very own general purpose device if Apple deems it not a good fit for their platform. For all I care force IAPs to go through their servers for 30%, the majority of the users will still use it just fine. Just put a scary looking, click 35 times on this hidden menu option to allow proper sideloading, not this 3 apps for 7 days bullshit.