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by ineedasername 2042 days ago
$0.99 or $1 is a pretty common price for small single-purpose apps or for an in-app purchase. I think it's fair to say there's no way Apple is paying anything close to $0.33 for those many, many, many transactions, losing $0.03 on each one. If I had to take a wild shot in the dark, I'd guess Apple is paying $0.05 to $0.10 for those.

Of course this is part of the problem: We can't even properly evaluate the situation because this side of it is an opaque black box.