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I doubt they would start charging developers to publish to their app store. This seems completely out of line with the rest of their Android strategy. I wonder

by klunger 12y ago

I doubt they would start charging developers to publish to their app store. This seems completely out of line with the rest of their Android strategy. I wonder why the VC said it?

SyneRyder 12y ago
Google already do charge, don't they? From memory there was a one-off $25 fee to sign up to sell on the Play Store. But even if they did, it wouldn't contribute significantly to the company's revenue - not sure how many developers Google has, but Apple has 380,000 registered developers[1], and even if they all pay $99/yr, that's 'only' $38 Million. Against Google's approx $60 Billion revenue[2], that doesn't move the needle at all. [1] https://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/ https://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/ [2] https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
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- derf_ 12y ago
  I don't think they mean an annual subscription. I assume they mean taking a larger share of the purchase price of apps, in-app purchases, and maybe even ad revenue. In the 12 months prior to June, developers earned $5bln for these things (Apple paid out north of $7.5bln in the same period) [1]. Google used to give developers 70% of app purchase revenue, give carriers 25%, and keep only 5% for themselves. A year or so ago they moved to keeping almost all of the non-developer pie. That pie is closer to $2bln than $38mln. But if they're going to take more, the only place left to take it from is developers. I can't believe that's going to go over well for them, but I already can't believe carriers rolled over so easily despite giving Google things it really needed, like carrier billing for app purchases. [1] http://www.beyonddevic.es/2014/06/25/what-we-learned-about-googles-app-revenue/ http://www.beyonddevic.es/2014/06/25/what-we-learned-about-g...

by klunger 12y ago

I doubt they would start charging developers to publish to their app store. This seems completely out of line with the rest of their Android strategy. I wonder why the VC said it?

SyneRyder 12y ago

Google already do charge, don't they? From memory there was a one-off $25 fee to sign up to sell on the Play Store. But even if they did, it wouldn't contribute significantly to the company's revenue - not sure how many developers Google has, but Apple has 380,000 registered developers[1], and even if they all pay $99/yr, that's 'only' $38 Million. Against Google's approx $60 Billion revenue[2], that doesn't move the needle at all. [1] https://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/ https://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/ [2] https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

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derf_ 12y ago
I don't think they mean an annual subscription. I assume they mean taking a larger share of the purchase price of apps, in-app purchases, and maybe even ad revenue. In the 12 months prior to June, developers earned $5bln for these things (Apple paid out north of $7.5bln in the same period) [1]. Google used to give developers 70% of app purchase revenue, give carriers 25%, and keep only 5% for themselves. A year or so ago they moved to keeping almost all of the non-developer pie. That pie is closer to $2bln than $38mln. But if they're going to take more, the only place left to take it from is developers. I can't believe that's going to go over well for them, but I already can't believe carriers rolled over so easily despite giving Google things it really needed, like carrier billing for app purchases. [1] http://www.beyonddevic.es/2014/06/25/what-we-learned-about-googles-app-revenue/ http://www.beyonddevic.es/2014/06/25/what-we-learned-about-g...