Apple pays out roughly the same percentage to developers as does Spotify to artists.
As Apple pays almost nothing to developer the DMA seems a step in the right direction.
As Apple pays almost nothing to developer the DMA seems a step in the right direction.
If you put an app in the App Store, at least you get to determine the price point—you get to determine whether you want to charge up-front, make an ad-supported app, or rely on IAPs. Spotify doesn’t let you set the price of your song.
iTunes Store does offer you some control, within certain limits. You can set the “price tier” for different songs, which is why you see some songs for 69¢, some for 99¢, and most for $1.29. If you’re a prog-rock band who put out an album with 20-minute songs, one song per side, then you mark the songs as “album-only” and set the price for the album (or at least the price tier). Or you can divide the song into segments and let people buy those as individual tracks. I’ve seen both approaches.
Perhaps that percentage is not because it's closed and a monopoly. Perhaps that percentage is a fair-market price.