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by coldtea 1965 days ago
Yes, so? It's still a 100 billion market they've built, for devices, OSes, and SDKs they build.

And it still has better paying customers than the Play store, and 1/50+ less malware (according to stats), so more customer trust.

Is it perfect? No.
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_qulr 1965 days ago
You speak as though app developers are swimming in money, but the fact is that the App Store market is very top heavy. As usual, "the 1%" are doing extremely well, but the vast majority of app developers are not making a lot of money. Apple's recent small business program is tacit acknowledgement from Apple that many developers are struggling financially and cannot afford even the 30% cut.

In comparison, the so-called "gig economy" is also extremely large, perhaps even larger in total dollars than the App Store, but that doesn't mean individual gig workers are doing well.

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coldtea 1965 days ago
>You speak as though app developers are swimming in money, but the fact is that the App Store market is very top heavy. As usual, "the 1%" are doing extremely well, but the vast majority of app developers are not making a lot of money.

Society is very "top heavy", the 1% has most of the wealth too, the popular artists is a power-law distribution, and so on. That's not up to the App Store though.

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whywhywhywhy 1965 days ago
>OSes, and SDKs they build

They build the OS and SDK on Mac too, why do they not get a % cut on all apps there too?

Actually when you're in Safari you're using their OS and SDK too why don't they get a % cut of purchases and software there too?

Just interested why one scenario is considered the norm yet these two others that fall under the same justification seem absurd.

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alisonkisk 1965 days ago
Because it takes time for Apple to migrate everyone over from old expectations, and Apple made a fortune on hardware markup on the computer purchase.
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coldtea 1965 days ago
>They build the OS and SDK on Mac too, why do they not get a % cut on all apps there too?

Because they chose not to for business/historical reasons. So?

>Actually when you're in Safari you're using their OS and SDK too why don't they get a % cut of purchases and software there too?

Well, technically you're not using their SDK. Just the OS and the browser engine. The SDK is just the JS runtime.

That said, they could. And people could use another platform.

>Just interested why one scenario is considered the norm yet these two others that fall under the same justification seem absurd.

In the end it's a business decision, with historical (e.g. computers didn't have this model in the past, phones/consoles/etc did), market, and other considerations.

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