How is this different from any other store that offers access to a wide audience? Connecting devs to hundreds of millions of people, taking care of warehousing, logistics and sale/payments handling? Do those retailers tell you who gets what further down the supply chain? No. You see the price of the product and nothing even remotely reminds you of how much the retailer payed the manufacturer, and how much the manufacturer payed their designer.
Imagine you make a toaster. You want that toaster on the shelves at a retailer. How much do you think the retailer gets? And the transporting company? I think 30% is low in comparison. But but but this is digital. Yeah, so where do you you have access to Apple’s client base? How much do you pay for the running and maintaining of the App Store infrastructure?
How many apps do you think are hosted that don’t make any money? For neither dev nor Apple? All those are costs. For Apple. Admitted they make a lot of money, but they do so because they’re successful. If you want to be successful on their platform, you play by their rules. And those are clear: you pay 30%.
Imagine you make a toaster. You want that toaster on the shelves at a retailer. How much do you think the retailer gets? And the transporting company? I think 30% is low in comparison. But but but this is digital. Yeah, so where do you you have access to Apple’s client base? How much do you pay for the running and maintaining of the App Store infrastructure?
How many apps do you think are hosted that don’t make any money? For neither dev nor Apple? All those are costs. For Apple. Admitted they make a lot of money, but they do so because they’re successful. If you want to be successful on their platform, you play by their rules. And those are clear: you pay 30%.