[gowld]

> People will pay $5 for coffee from some random coffee shop they've never visited, but they won't pay 99 cents for an app someone put a few years of development into with 5 star reviews.

This is a trope, but is it true? Maybe these spendy people buying all these $5 coffees are also buying apps and renting movies and looking at ads, while the cheapskates making drip at home are pirating and ad-blocking.

Apple isn't making tens of $billions off people refusing to buy apps.

[BoorishBears]

As someone who works in the mobile development industry I already knew it was true

But couldn't you do a quick search to find out for yourself?

https://www.businessinsider.com/just-2-of-app-installs-lead-...

I mean you're saying "tens of billions" like it's a large chunk but the same estimates showing 61 billion from all billing (not just app sales) are showing half a trillion dollars from the App Store alone in total

So yes, app sales are a pittance when it comes to the revenue the App Store generates, let alone what Apple generates.