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Why did they take apples deal but not googles? How would googles deal be a loser but not apple, at a worse rate?
by rtpg 3y ago
Why did they take apples deal but not googles? How would googles deal be a loser but not apple, at a worse rate?
- solarkraft 3y agoGoogle doesn't force you to go through them as strongly.
- rtpg 3y agoIt's more that the article said "10% cut with Google would mean we would be losing money", yet they took the 15% deal from Apple. They could have done the same thing with Apple that they did with Google I think? Unless Apple threatened to delist them (though that would be another can of worms...)
- polygamous_bat 3y agoProbably because they assume android users to be more technically capable, and thus think that they can use a browser to pay rather than using the App Store?
- scarface_74 3y agoRight, the 40% of people in the US who use Androids are statistically poorer and less well educated.
- dgeiser13 3y agoFunny that all of my well-paid IT buddies use Android.
- scarface_74 3y agoWell, we don’t need anecdotes - we have real world statistics in every major market in the world that the household income of an iPhone user is higher then that of an Android user.
- jerojero 3y agoStatistically less well educated might be relevant, income? Not so much. Unless you want to imply here that there's a link between lower income and lower technical expertise in using phone operating systems. I would imagine that simply the fact that you're on Android brings a bit more technical challenges to the table, which users will deal with. Anyone that has used both operating systems has experienced this. Apple tends to simplify and hide a lot of complexity on a lot of things for their users which limits what you can do but increases the ease of use in a lot of basic things. So I would say people who use Android are probably more used to overcoming these sort of hurdles than iPhone users might be. To an iPhone user, you might have to teach, to an Android user it's more of a reminder as they've probably already encountered something similar before.
- scarface_74 3y agoWhat technical challenges do you think most Android users face? They use the included apps or go to the Play Store and download apps. Anecdotally, how well did Epic do when they tried to encourage Android users to side load Fortnite?