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Not even close. They semi-arbitrarily came up with prices they allow in the App Store, probably “justifying” it using some metrics, or your app will be rejected
by __ryan__ 4y ago
Not even close. They semi-arbitrarily came up with prices they allow in the App Store, probably “justifying” it using some metrics, or your app will be rejected.
- fatnoah 4y agoThe press release implies that the chosen price points are "approachable" for app store customers.
- desmond373 4y agoProbably trying to reduce the number of sevens around the place
- threeseed 4y agoLong time ago I used to work at Apple so not sure if it's still accurate. But originally the App Store was leveraging their existing payment infrastructure e.g. the one they use for iPhone sales. Purchases and invoices were done through SAP which was manually configured to support those price points. It's why you saw weird behaviour e.g. invoices for free app "purchases" and largely the limitations of that system drove what they could and could not do. Perhaps they've done an overhaul for this system or migrated to a custom built one which is what has enabled all of this new functionality.
- kneebonian 4y ago> But originally the App Store was leveraging their existing payment infrastructure e.g. the one they use for iPhone sales. Purchases and invoices were done through SAP which was manually configured to support those price points. Can I just say finding out that Apple uses SAP on the backend is just one of those things that shakes my world view.
- TAForObvReasons 4y agoAmazon used Oracle until a few years ago, Google accounting teams used Excel, etc.
- orhmeh09 4y agoDo Google accountants use Sheets?
- kccqzy 4y agoExcel? Small and medium companies probably can run on Excel but I'm sure no large company can run their finance entirely with Excel. Google switched from Oracle to SAP. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/google-will-stop-using-oracle-finance-software-switch-to-sap.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/google-will-stop-using-oracl...
- mwest217 4y agoI don't think that's been true for over a decade. Google has a pretty sophisticated internal payments system that handles terms customers, invoicing, payment initiation, and lots more. I understand that Cloud specifically is switching to manage accounting using SAP, but most of Google runs via our own in-house systems. Source: work at Google in payments. This is only my personal opinion.
- r00fus 4y agoFrom one of my internal contacts who worked there & had to actually interface with the SAP implementation: 1) It's one of the largest SAP deployments in the US if not the world 2) SAP (at the time) was the only one who could offer an ERP that scaled to do what Apple wanted. Homegrown enterprise software is one of those things that sounds great until you realize you're re-inventing a lot of code dealing with regulations (tax/hr legal) that is other companies bread & butter so it's worth "paying their price" rather than getting it wrong and being on the wrong side of litigation/legislation.
- sokoloff 4y agoThe only thing I’d rather work on less than SAP is rolling my own ERP system.
- rgovostes 4y agoThe guy who originally set up Apple’s SAP integration in the 80s(?) used to run Caffe Frascati, a popular café/music venue in downtown San Jose.
- chevman 4y agoThanks for the story! When app and itunes stores first went live I remember getting these odd invoices at times and speculating with work friends about stuff like this! OH YEAH, APPLE IS PROBABLY USING SAP ON THE BACKEND!!!!!! NO WAY DUDE THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT!!!!!!!!! Good times.