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by transpute 1y ago
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> For more than 90 percent of the billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem, developers did not pay any commission to Apple.
Would the remaining 10 percent of App Store sales have meaningful competition from a CLI (no GUI) terminal VM that enables development workflows on iPad?
- AJRF 1y ago> developers did not pay any commission to Apple That's certainly a take. The developer fee is $99 a year, that HAS to be paid to put something on the App Store. Sure they are not getting commision on the download, but they ARE getting their pound of flesh from the developer fee.
- transpute 1y agoAn estimated 3M iOS developers would generate $300M developer fee revenue. App store revenue is around $100B, or 300X estimated developer fees.
- palata 1y agoStill, "developers did not pay any commission to Apple" is wrong.
- transpute 1y agoIf the full sentence is referencing sales commission, then the fixed developer fee would not qualify, since it's not a percentage of revenue, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sales-commission https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sales-c... Sales commission is the percentage of the value of a sale that a sales associate or sales representative may earn.