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As the parent comment was saying however, it’s not just the App Store’s services that are being funded, but also platform, SDK, and developer tooling. 30% is p
by jwells89 3y ago
As the parent comment was saying however, it’s not just the App Store’s services that are being funded, but also platform, SDK, and developer tooling.
30% is probably too steep of a cut, but I don’t think it’s wrong for them to to take some percentage (the 15% rate they give to small devs who ask for it seems closer to reality).
- grishka 3y ago> but also platform, SDK, and developer tooling This is also a strange argument. The "platform, SDK, and developer tooling" are actually funded by device sales because those things are inseparable form the cost of developing the operating systems themselves, which in turn is included in the device prices.
- jwells89 3y agoTo some extent yes, but marketplace cuts help further incentivize investment in those things. This can be seen in the difference in the rate those things improved between when macOS was the flagship platform and when iOS took that crown. All of that sped up dramatically after the App Store really took off, with AppKit largely getting left in the dust compared to its iOS counterpart UIKit and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.