Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

All about PR. Pretty sure they make the big bucks off the $1million+ earners.

No. The majority of their income is from the less than $1million earners. That's how the long tail in economics works.

My income just increases 20% from next year for doing nothing. I'll take that.

Another way to look at it is that you severely overpaid before. It's not like Apple innovated by using cheaper materials, more automation, less hardware, or made a lot more profit recently to give back to the developers that are providing value to their platform.

It's about encouraging the small innovative developers. Their apps make the ecosystem attractive.

No, majority of the App Store revenue come from big developers. Think YouTube, all the freemium games, etc.

> The change will affect roughly 98 percent of the companies that pay Apple a commission, according to estimates from Sensor Tower, an app analytics firm. But those developers accounted for less than 5 percent of App Store revenues last year, Sensor Tower said. Apple said the new rate would affect the “vast majority” of its developers, but declined to offer specific numbers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/technology/apple-app-stor...