[konschubert]

Yep. Apple should have handled this like tax brackets: The first million gets taxed 15% and anything beyond that gets taxed 30%.

I wonder why they're not doing that and creating all kinds of weird edge cases that will encourage hacky workarounds.

I guess they didn't want to lose out on the first million from those who are above the first bracket.

[Zobat]

From the annoncement: "If a participating developer surpasses the $1 million threshold, the standard commission rate will apply for the remainder of the year."

[dkarbayev]

But next year the commission rate will be 30% and if the earnings that year are below $1m the business will be only eligible for the reduced commission year after that.

[timjver]

Right, but will they be eligible the year after? If not, then this still means that not surpassing the threshold could increase their revenue in the long run.