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I disagree. First of all I expect competing stores to ask a smaller cut than what currently Apple asks (and Apple itself may lower it), so it may very well be t
by mrighele 2y ago
I disagree. First of all I expect competing stores to ask a smaller cut than what currently Apple asks (and Apple itself may lower it), so it may very well be the case even with a middleman the amount "lost" by the developer will be lower. Not a given though, I guess we will see.
Secondly, the Android ecosystem seems to be doing well even with the situation you describe. There are not that many competing stores (mostly from sellers of devices, like huawei, samsung, amazon, which is something will not happen with Apple devices), and piracy, while present is not as commons as with desktops.
- outofpaper 2y agoI agree with you on most counts save for the piracy. It's highly dependent on market segment, with less affluent sectors especially with youth you'll find very high privacy rates. I look forward to the day an fdroid like platform is available on Apple phones and tablets.
- madeofpalk 2y agoAre you making much money from less affluent sectors anyway? Existance of piracy doesn't mean loss of sales. I would guess that most pirated software was never going to be purchased anyway.
- saintfire 2y agoI'd contend that profiteering off of youth is more questionably moral than piracy among youth. I pirated virtually everything I consumed as a kid/teen and now that I have money I pay for it. The companies I pirated off of lost nothing because I had no means to purchase it anyways.
- wellthisisgreat 2y ago> Secondly, the Android ecosystem seems to be doing well Android apps are notoriously pirated through and through. For a smaller company in developed market anything Android is a second thought because monetization is much harder