[mariust]

Why is it ok in software to pay a 20% - 30% commission? Imagine if your car dealer would ask an extra 30%

Ok, ok I get it, it's not a physical product but still people get paid to work on it and develop it, and there are income taxes and all that, but really 20-30%?!?!

If you sell a product chances are your profit margin is 20-30% and that it's good, but here in software we have to do a cut for 20-30%, well again 10% it's not going to buy all the fancy tech and spaces in expensive parts of the world.

[smaryjerry]

It’s not cheap sending a few bytes through the internet. It takes... uh... some storage and bandwidth on the order of several dollars to have a website simply show your app.. yea.. this is what happens when marketplaces have monopolies, even if they are essentially self imposed monopolies by the customers simply being to lazy to search for things elsewhere.

[LukaszWiktor]

Unfortunatelly, big corps have the power to impose their own taxes. Google, Apple, Shopify, Upwork, ...

[evgen]

If your profit margin on a software product is only 30% you have absolutely no business being in business.

[AdrianB1]

That does not answer the question and it is a very rude comment.