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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: 0.205s | source
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saagarjha ◴[18 Nov 20 11:12 UTC] No.25135463[source]▶
This is good for smaller developers, but it doesn't really seem to solve the actual problem? All the people who are willing to go to war with Apple and have teeth are making way more than that…
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breakfastduck ◴[18 Nov 20 11:24 UTC] No.25135566[source]▶
Yes but many of the larger players who are willing to go to war use the 'its not fair on smaller developers' argument against them.

This really slaps down the ability to use that.

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varispeed ◴[18 Nov 20 11:35 UTC] No.25135656[source]▶
15% is still not fair.
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HatchedLake721 ◴[18 Nov 20 11:37 UTC] No.25135663[source]▶
And you calculated that how?
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varispeed ◴[18 Nov 20 11:46 UTC] No.25135743[source]▶
It's a level that state would take to take care for roads, healthcare, civil service, army and so on. There is no justification for such high % to maintain an app. They could charge per app review and maybe the data transfer fee no more than Amazon S3. Anything else is Apple abusing their monopoly. Developer can't submit their app to an alternative app store because Apple doesn't allow that and it must change.
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viktorcode ◴[18 Nov 20 13:09 UTC] No.25136319[source]▶
Unlike a commercial company a state is not for-profit enterprise. Maybe you think that app stores shouldn't be for-profit marketplaces either?
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1. alisonkisk ◴[19 Nov 20 14:31 UTC] No.25149831[source]▶
The state is not-for-profit because it is a monopoly. Like Apple.