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People could care less about the app stores 30% cut. Developers care. Even then 90% of App Store revenue comes from pay to win games and whales buying loot bo
by scarface_74 3y ago
People could care less about the app stores 30% cut. Developers care. Even then 90% of App Store revenue comes from pay to win games and whales buying loot boxes and coins.
You’ll have to excuse me if I can’t manage a tear for them.
- pjc50 3y agoI can't believe I have to write "developers are people too" on Hacker News.
- scarface_74 3y agoNo one cares about “developers” - I’m one too. The things that developers want is often orthogonal to what end users want. 1. End users have never said “it would be great to have PWAs so we can have the same lowest common denominator for our phones that we have with electron apps on the desktop” 2. End users have never said “we really want a ‘relationship’ with the developer so they can spam us with related offers” 3. “I feel so bad that Epic and other companies who spam the App Store could get 30% more for selling loot boxes and gems for pay to win games” - this is where 90% of App Store revenue comes from. It came out in the epic trial