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Also of note, updates count as downloads.

• joshstrange 3y ago
  They count as downloads but the count is download/per-user/per-year. Still not going to be cheap but yeah. If you have 2M users and you ship 1 update or 1,000,000 new updates in a year you just pay $0.50/user (for 1M of them, since the first 1M is "free").
  • nmcfarl 3y ago
    However on the flip side a user can be someone who downloads your app, pokes at for 10 minutes and deletes it. Not something I would call a user, but for apples purposes it works.
    • realusername 3y ago
      Working on an app, I'd say that's 50%+ of the installs that are done this way.
• hmottestad 3y ago
  It's 0,5 USD for every install after the first 1 000 000, per year. Updates don't make any difference. Worth noting is that a user who never opens the app after the first time will still count as an install.
• Brian_K_White 3y ago
  There is a couple of interesting ramifications there. 1 obvious, so, they just disincentivised updates? Brilliant. Or maybe the idea is for app developers to charge for updates. 2 oh right, developers have to update frequently or else Apple will remove the app for being a security risk or simply no longer being compatible with current os and apis, os and apis whose changes are controlled by who again? So they charge for updates, and make it a rule that you must update. What a great racket!