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Seems pretty reasonable since they have paid nothing for a giant distribution mechanism for almost 15 years. One of the chief complaints about the 15/30% fee h
by kj99 3y ago
Seems pretty reasonable since they have paid nothing for a giant distribution mechanism for almost 15 years.
One of the chief complaints about the 15/30% fee has been that people like Meta pay nothing and are subsidized by everyone else.
- mirsadm 3y agoHow's that reasonable? If it were possible they could have hosted the app on their own web site for next to nothing.
- kj99 3y agoIf you think that Apple's platform brings no value then sure.
- 8organicbits 3y agoI'm seeing a 300 MB app (iOS) and 3B monthly active users. Perhaps 900,000,000 GB of data transfer per year between fresh installs and updates? Using dumb file hosting on Backblaze this would cost somewhere near $9M (public pricing). A full app store would have additional costs but $70M still seems high.
- nightski 3y agoThis seems like such an odd argument to me. The distribution mechanism is what sells luxury devices at a huge profit margin for Apple. It's a value add for Apple to have a walled garden store.
- liotier 3y agoIt is a two-sided market and Apple naturally wants a bite on both ends.
- Panini_Jones 3y agoYou're right, it's a value add for Apple. If there were no non-Apple apps, I would not buy an iPhone.
- votepaunchy 3y agoApple could individually negotiate with the top 1000+ apps. The question is of having a wide open marketplace with standardized rules. How many users need the long tail?
- kj99 3y agoThat's the opposite of a value add. What you are describing is an unavoidable cost of doing business which Apple is entitled to charge developers for.
- kj99 3y agoThe iPhone sold at a huge profit margin before there even was a store so this is obviously false.
- leereeves 3y agoOnly a few million iPhones were sold before the App Store (which was introduced in July 2008), as this chart shows: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-iphone-sales-since-3rd-quarter-2007/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...
- kj99 3y agoSo what?
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- the_gipsy 3y agoThey already have a giant distribution mechanism, the web. It's just that apple cripples the web experience in favor of their appstore, where they have control and get their cut.
- dchftcs 3y ago0.5 per user per year by installs is significant for many apps, apart from apps from large companies, only subscription-based apps have the economics to justify this cost.