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1. julianozen ◴[] No.25137904[source]
There’s a sleight of hand going on here.

Apple is saying that most developer teams make under $1M so this will help them (which is true and great for those teams!). I’m sure most make $0

But what is being missed is that the majority of purchases are done by teams making more than $1M like Spotify and Epic.

For Apple, this concession appeases a lot of angry devs, without giving up a lot of money. I’d wager that most operations struggle to hire a full team and make ongoing product updates for less then $1M of revenue

And of course the actual problem with the App Store isn’t the 30%. It’s Apple’s control and ability to make and enforce arbitrary rules on a whim - as evidenced by today’s changed.