[whiddershins]

To be precise it is 30% revenue.

They have costs. And they allow free apps! Every free app that gets downloads and doesn’t monetize at all is pure cost for them.

[CharlesW]

> To be precise it is 30% revenue.

15% until you hit $1M in annual App Store revenues. Most developers will only ever pay 15%.

[menus]

Apple charges 99$ per year to publish apps.

Apple has ads in the App Store.

I am not asking for a PhD thesis. I am asking for five minutes of middle school level googling.

[johneth]

The already cheap cost of distributing data gets cheaper by the day. For an entity like Apple, with its vast economies of scale, distribution costs are negligible.