[twooclock]

For my users having a PWA is completely irrelevant. Once they add it to home screen it's an app for them (I don't even bother to explain anymore). It might be a discoverability issue since they can't find you in app stores though.

[1oooqooq]

why would you not put a wrapped pwa in the app store?

isn't it a small racketeering/marketing price for the promissed discoverability?

[goosejuice]

Easier with Android. Apple requires many hurdles, at least for US. You'll also then have to revenue share.

Depends on your audience on whether this will actually be worth the investment. Being on the app store doesn't necessarily make you visible anyhow. It's just easier to install for apple users.

[scarface_74]

If you have a SaaS app, there is nothing stopping you from charging more in app to make up the difference and charging less outside the store

[goosejuice]

Good point, but I think app store presence would be more important in d2c rather than b2b SaaS.

In that situation I don't think charging more would go over well with consumers.

Have you seen this done?

[scarface_74]

Spotify did it for awhile before they completely stopped accepting in app purchases. Paramount+ also use to do it.

Netflix offers in app purchases for streaming subscriptions if you pay through their games. But only the ad tier.

You can subscribe to YouTube or Hulu via in app subscriptions. But you can’t subscribe to YouTube TV or Hulu Live TV via the app.

I guess these days I would offer a higher month to month subscription through in app purchases and a lower yearly subscription from the web.

[goosejuice]

Excellent context, thanks!

[carlonicora]

If you publish the app in the App Store you will have to give Apple a chunk of you revenue as well, not just the yearly fee

[Turing_Machine]

True enough. However, you also need to consider that customers are much more likely to hand their card number over to Apple than to some random website they've never heard of before. In fact, Apple probably already has it.

70% of something is more than 100% of nothing (especially when the product is software or something else that has a marginal cost of production of essentially zero).

[Turing_Machine]

Discoverability was a good argument at one time, but much less so with the shitshow the iOS app store has become.