narwhal

Are there really 1500 UK developers making >$1M from app sales? And don’t the remaining developers pay 15%? Anyway I think it would be fine for Apple to reduce the commission to 15% for everybody, but the change might result in Apple platforms becoming more dominant. And decrease competition among app stores. How could a new competing platform become profitable if the commission was just 15% on Apple platforms?

Pretty sure these are chip-bumped Mac Studio models.

hmurchison said:

iPads have gotten a bit too expensive. 

Wow, iPads start at $300 and you’re complaining about the price?

Since Apple never released touchscreen Macs, it could be these larger-screen iPads will be Apple's new touch-first desktop computers. One of my kids is using a 12.9" iPad Pro with the keyboard cover and pen as a laptop at college, quite happily I might add. I see no reason the iPad OS can't become a desktop OS. Touch targets in iPad apps are already big, there are orders of magnitude more iPad apps, and Mac apps typically DON'T have touch-friendly UX controls.

I submit probably 100 apps a year for app review, and the quality of the reviewers is all over the board. Sometimes the reviewer rejects an app for a ridiculous or erroneous reason, but then the app gets approved immediately if you resubmit it. I think it's fine, but then I've submitted enough apps that I have the routine pretty much figured out. I appreciate that the app review process is usually within 24 hours now.