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  • Apple mulled 40% take of subscription fees in 2011

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    As if that means something, I don’t care if they discussed 80% commissions... 
    At the time, they had no idea if the App Store was going to succeed. 
    I am sure other app stores (the market) would have popped up at a 80% commission rate.
    But they didn’t at 30%...So the discussion is moot.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple halved Amazon's App Store fee to get Prime Video on iOS and Apple TV

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    crowley said:
    Isn't lying to Congress a crime?  If Cook is saying they treat everyone the same then that seems to be a pretty egregious lie.
    1.) I would look up ‘lie’.... The last time I read it, it meant the intention was to deceive.

    2.) So every app returns a benefit to Apple the same as Amazon??
    lolliver

  • Apple facing yet another multi-state probe related to iPhone throttling

    geekmeegeekmee
    Can you say? Pile on
    Because that is where the money is.
    mike1lordjohnwhorfingeorge kaplanBeatsmwhitelkruppjony0watto_cobra

  • Apple AirPods and Beats charging case technology targeted in patent suit

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    I bet it’s cheaper for Apple to submit patents for anything that is working on, as opposed to leaving an opportunity for legal trolls.
    watto_cobra

  • Epic Games CEO criticizes Apple's App Store policies in interview

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    TheNubi said:
    DAalseth said:
    TheNubi said:
    DAalseth said:
    "If every developer could accept their own payments and avoid the 30% tax by Apple and Google we could pass the savings along to all our consumers and players would get a better deal on items."

    A: This ignores the cost to the developers of setting up and running their own stores.
    B: No they wouldn't "pass the savings along". they'd pocket it. 

    This is  totally self serving and disingenuous statement by Sweeney.

    B. You don’t know that. No one has had an opportunity to see if it would happen or not. Even if they pocket the difference it won’t make much difference to the user. 
    Oh yes I do.  
    First if each developer absorbed the overhead of setting up their own store it would cost at least as much if not more. Second if they went with another company to provide the storefront service, the cost would be roughly the same. Lastly if by some miracle Apple or someone else offered a digital storefront for free with no % cut for the cost, the developers would simply pocket the difference. Most developers work on thin margins and an extra 30% would be better plowed back into the business rather than dropping prices for likely no increase in sales. 

    The 30% would NEVER go back to the customers. 
    From this very article, Epic only charges 12% for their store. If you didn’t need a specific store front, there are any number of online payment processing services available that many companies use. Paying to host an image of your installer is likewise very cheap. Distributing software via the internet is not complex or expensive in 2020. The point is options are there if not for Apple’s artificial barrier. 30% for distribution has always been too much, but its a ransom that has to be paid because there is no other option. 
    “ 30% for distribution has always been too much, but its a ransom that has to be paid because there is no other option. ”

    YES... There are other options!....
    Options the CEO of Epic Games has decided not to pay... In choosing to pay Apple’s 30%.
    watto_cobra