Comment by Dylan16807 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Dylan16807 | Hacker News Reader

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> From a developer perspective I don't see why anyone should use the AppStore as a distribution channel to a huge market and completely circumvent Apple's cut when clearly they are offering a lot of value by making this possible in the first place?

It's entirely reasonable for apple to get some cut for validating and distributing the app. But a flat 30% (eventually dropping to 15% per customer) doesn't seem right for something charging a significant amount of money.

If the 30% fee applied to the first 10-20 dollars, and they only charged for payment processing after that, they'd still make plenty of money both up front and recurring. (I'm imagining something like "5% flat" or "cost they pay plus 1.5%" for the payment processing fee.)

so for a subscription based app, I have to partner with Apple (30% of income is partnering) for the privilege of allowing me to offer my customers a native app? I do the marketing, content creation, app development and customer support and every year I pay the ̶𝚖̶𝚘̶𝚋̶ their cut so they won't burn down my store?

Once you’re in Apples ecosystem, some of the marketing, app development, and customer support is now handled by Apple. I also don’t see why you have earned access to Apple customers, anymore than you should have access to Alibaba or Walmart customers.

The argument should be why Apple customers should vote with their wallets to tell Apple to move one way or another.

no marketing unless you mean spending more on app store seo or whatever it is called

no app development unless you mean the non existent support and the willy-nilly api changes

no customer support unless you mean refunding subscription when the dev is not at fault.

I don't want access to apple's customers! I want my customers to be able to load my app on their devices.

IF Microsoft pulled such a move people would lose their minds

That is the opposite of what I said!

If it was unclear, I didn't mean the first 10-20 dollars per payment, I meant the first 10-20 dollars ever.

makes more sense now :)

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