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Microsoft ups revenue share for developers in the online Store to 95%

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10 pointsvezycash7 comments

To be clear (the headline isn't), a maximum of 95%. If you find an app in the Microsoft Store you're getting 85%. But for developers pushing people to install right from their own website, it's 95%.

So Microsoft gets a larger cut if they helped your app get discovered, which makes sense, and Microsoft always gets a small cut in general, which makes sense to cover distribution costs.

Given that neither Apple nor Google have really budged on the "we'll take one third" approach of app markets, this is kinda a big deal, though of course, since each one markets to it's own platform, this isn't really "price competition" in the strictest sense.

I saw a Reddit post asking if anyone had actually made any money on UWP yesterday, so, you know, this should help.

Honestly do not see it changing anything. It will continue to be all about the Apple and Google app stores. Too late.

As noted: They aren't really competing since the Microsoft Store runs of Windows devices and the Play Store runs on Android devices and the like. But whereas Google is fleecing you for a third of your income, Microsoft is being far more generous. Take that for what you will.

Obviously Microsoft won't see a huge surge of activity in their store as long as Windows 7 is still supported (which means developers are writing legacy apps).

Too late. That should have been done with Windows Phone Store launch. And also no killing this OS where it sold (Europe) would have been nice to keep a reason for using it in the first place.

Actually not having windows phone makes things easier. Developers only need to care about desktop.

I think this is great news and something I've been pushing for for a long time. Sure adoption of Windows Store apps are pretty low now and it's incredibly hard to earn any money on them, but at least it's not impossible now like it was before with MS taking such a big cut.

Maybe this is enough that some hobbyist start putting some more effort into developing for the platform, which actually is quite nice.

How much is 85% of nothing?

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