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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

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830 points todsacerdoti | 5 comments | 18 Nov 20 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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nikivi ◴[18 Nov 20 11:13 UTC] No.25135478[source]▶
Same model as Unreal Engine. I wonder if this scaling model works out for most marketplaces or only specific ones.
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q3k ◴[18 Nov 20 11:18 UTC] No.25135511[source]▶
Except Unreal Engine actually delivers some value for their cut.
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1. ben_w ◴[18 Nov 20 11:23 UTC] No.25135558[source]▶
The operating system isn’t valuable from your perspective? The payment processing? The IDE? The language?
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2. q3k ◴[18 Nov 20 11:28 UTC] No.25135592[source]▶
I would argue the only fees that should be based on revenue are payment processor fees, and maybe distribution/CDN costs (althouth these should be instead charged per byte carried). And even then, these are astronomically low compared to the current 15%/30% cut.

Everything else is paid for already by the end user of the device (who consciously pay a premium to use Apple's ecosystem), and has no reason to scale linearly with developer revenue.

3. hu3 ◴[18 Nov 20 12:17 UTC] No.25135937[source]▶
The operating system is paid by every customer.

The payment processing? That's usualy 3% for credit card operators.

The IDE and language? That's the $100 per year per developer account.

4. Hamuko ◴[18 Nov 20 12:17 UTC] No.25135938[source]▶
The operating system is valuable to the people who buy it, as in, the people who buy iPhones. This is why they pay a hefty price for it. Asking developers to pay for the OS is just double-dipping.
5. Axsuul ◴[18 Nov 20 12:25 UTC] No.25135993[source]▶
Most importantly it's the marketing and distribution that you're paying for.