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App stores seem like an even bigger 'sharecropper'. Giving 30% for what? The biggest point is advertisement - or was. Now that the app stores are saturated, yo
by octaveguin 14y ago
App stores seem like an even bigger 'sharecropper'. Giving 30% for what?
The biggest point is advertisement - or was. Now that the app stores are saturated, you absolutely need to market your app independently. Its as if you have a website that has been given to you by apple/google and they allow you to make money off of it if you pay them annually and cut them in for 30% of revenue.
- Evbn 14y agoThat's exactly what it is. An exchange of services for money, hedged. If that's a bad deal, feel free to sell on an alternative app store (Android) or convince your users to jailvrrak (iOS)
- dageshi 14y agoI think you're paying 30% for someone else to handle all the payment processing and delivery crud that you'd otherwise have to handle yourself. That stuff isn't necessarily easy or cheap especially when you get fraud + chargebacks involved. So I do certainly think Apple and the other app stores are doing something for their money.
- vanderZwan 14y agoIf blurb.com can make a profit selling your ebooks and keeping only 20%, I'm pretty sure that we're being overcharged at least 10%. http://www.blurb.com/sell-your-book http://www.blurb.com/sell-your-book "Earn money when people buy your book: you keep 100% of your markup for a print book or PDF, or 80% of the price you set for an ebook"