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> It's a huge market Approximately 7% of Apple's worldwide revenue: https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue https://daringfireball.net/20

by vsl 2y ago

> It's a huge market Approximately 7% of Apple's worldwide revenue: https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenu... That's hardly "huge" especially when weighted against DMA's fines up to 10-20% of worldwide revenue plus the uncertainty risk of interpreting DMA.

Jensson 2y ago
I really doubt that blogs numbers, the revenue share in Europe is around 25%, I doubt less than a third of that is in EU: https://www.statista.com/statistics/382288/geographical-region-share-of-revenue-of-apple/#:~:text=As%20of%20the%20second%20quarter,the%20holiday%20seasons%20take%20place https://www.statista.com/statistics/382288/geographical-regi....
- Aloisius 2y ago
  That's not actually Europe. That's Apple's "Europe" sector which includes 4 billion people across Europe, India, Africa and the Middle East.
jsnell 2y ago
7% of App Store revenue. Not all their revenue.
indoordin0saur 2y ago
That's amazingly low given that Europe has such a large portion of the world's wealthy consumers. Even then, I think it'd be a huge risk to Apple if they created the perfect conditions for the might of the Polish/German/Ukrainian/Dutch developers to create their own Apple competitor.
- lurking_swe 2y ago
  Gathering some hard data… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe... look at the “by country” table. If sorted by mean, 2 countries in the top 10. If sorted by median, 3. I agree that 7% of app store revenue seems low. HOWEVER keep in mind that the EU is tiny on a population level. Not a single county cracks the top ten. So maybe not so surprising…
  - p_l 2y ago
    EU is also bigger on population level than USA as a whole market. That's a bit like saying that USA is tiny on population level because of states like Alaska.

by vsl 2y ago

Jensson 2y ago

I really doubt that blogs numbers, the revenue share in Europe is around 25%, I doubt less than a third of that is in EU: https://www.statista.com/statistics/382288/geographical-region-share-of-revenue-of-apple/#:~:text=As%20of%20the%20second%20quarter,the%20holiday%20seasons%20take%20place https://www.statista.com/statistics/382288/geographical-regi....

Aloisius 2y ago
That's not actually Europe. That's Apple's "Europe" sector which includes 4 billion people across Europe, India, Africa and the Middle East.

jsnell 2y ago

7% of App Store revenue. Not all their revenue.

indoordin0saur 2y ago

That's amazingly low given that Europe has such a large portion of the world's wealthy consumers. Even then, I think it'd be a huge risk to Apple if they created the perfect conditions for the might of the Polish/German/Ukrainian/Dutch developers to create their own Apple competitor.

lurking_swe 2y ago
Gathering some hard data… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe... look at the “by country” table. If sorted by mean, 2 countries in the top 10. If sorted by median, 3. I agree that 7% of app store revenue seems low. HOWEVER keep in mind that the EU is tiny on a population level. Not a single county cracks the top ten. So maybe not so surprising…
- p_l 2y ago
  EU is also bigger on population level than USA as a whole market. That's a bit like saying that USA is tiny on population level because of states like Alaska.