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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

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830 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 18 Nov 20 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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karolkozub ◴[18 Nov 20 11:30 UTC] No.25135615[source]▶
Wow. That's amazing. That's a 20% increase in revenue for those eligible. I'm guessing they decided the increased value of their products from more smaller developers creating apps for the platform is greater than the lost revenue.

If I understand correctly though, since it's a hard cutoff it creates this gap between 1m and ~1.2m where you're actually worse off by making more money pre-tax.

   999k --[-15%]--> 849k
  1000k --[-30%]--> 700k
  1213k --[-30%]--> 849k
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dalbasal ◴[18 Nov 20 12:56 UTC] No.25136212[source]▶
As some of these platforms/markets mature, and the policies managing them... running a platform gets similar to running a country. Progressive taxation. Loopholes or anti-loopholes in this case. MSFT basically has an IRS.
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1. toyg ◴[18 Nov 20 22:14 UTC] No.25143185[source]▶
Indeed. They are effectively running a country - just it's a digital one.

Cyberpunk always wins, in the long run.