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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

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830 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 18 Nov 20 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | 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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1. hallgrim ◴[19 Nov 20 07:31 UTC] No.25147078[source]▶
No.if I understand correctly, Apples own article says that you pay 15% if eligible, and when you cross 1million, you pay 30% for the remainder of the year, ie no back payments.

That would be dangerous, because imagine being under 1million all year, and in December you make 1 dollar too much - suddenly you would have to pay Apple a lot of money you may have already spent. You never pay Apple though, they just keep their cut.

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2. hallgrim ◴[19 Nov 20 08:38 UTC] No.25147445[source]▶
Well, there is still the point of crossing the million and having a more expensive next year as a consequence, my bad!