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Percentage of Apple's overall revenue doesn't matter here. It is amazing Apple somehow spends so much money on reviewing apps and providing the app store that
by smackfu 15y ago
Percentage of Apple's overall revenue doesn't matter here.
It is amazing Apple somehow spends so much money on reviewing apps and providing the app store that they can't make much money on a 30% cut.
- kapowaz 15y agoWhat I find amazing is that people find it so easy to dismiss the cost of running an online store with almost no downtime, delivering music, television episodes, movies and apps to customers all around the world, with fast download speeds, with all the recovery facilities that iCloud offers for past purchases. Apple's famous North Carolina data centre cost about $1 Bn to construct (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/apples-nc-data-center-coming-online-this-spring.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/apples-nc-data-cen...). At that price, you'd need to collect 30% of $3.3 Bn in revenues just to break even.
- smackfu 15y agoYeah, but who spends a billion dollars on a datacenter??? Only a company with more cash than they know what to do with.