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App Store changes look like a free ride to some developers
You are not stuck with Steam of Epic Game Store on PC to release your product.zinkdifferent said:How much of a percentage does Microsoft charge developers to be on their application store? (12% to 15% *if* the developer uses Microsoft's billing system)How much does SONY charge for games hosted on their Playstation store? (SONY charges a 30% fee on digital sales and in-app purchases)How much does STEAM charge developers to be on their store? (30% on game sales and in-app purchases, until you reach $10 million in sales - 25% - , and less after $50 million - 20%)
How much does EPIC charge developers to be on their stores? (12% on games sales and in-app purchases)
Where is the outrage over all of these platform providers 'gouging' developers, while arguably providing much much less than Apple...
On PC you can directly sell and market your game without a game store involved, or you can find a smaller alternative store, or multiple sales channels. Your Windows or Linux PC doesn’t come pre-installed with these stores and they don’t block you from installing whatever store you want.That’s the essential difference here; Apple is not in the market, Apple IS the market - it’s become thát big - and they also don’t allow for any competition on their locked platform.The outlier here is Sony / PlayStation, or Microsoft / XBOX. iPhones and iPads are general-purpose computing devices and game consoles are not, but the argument to treat them differently is arguably weaker.
Other arguments are that the console market is much smaller than the mobile phone market. The current regulatory focus (e.g., EU DMA) is on mobile platforms, not game consoles. Consoles are also subsidized hardware, where the business model expects exclusivity and commission on digital sales to recoup costs. But the argument remains weaker and I think the same regularity focus should be on these platforms.
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App Store changes look like a free ride to some developers
teejay2012 said:randyl said:
.. I'm guessing there is a more optimal way that is secure/easy for the consumer, fairer to the developer considering I'm subsidizing the app store with my iphone purchase....
Nonsense really. You bought a high tech iPhone for a price you felt was worth it and I am pretty sure that like most of us, you never really thought of the App Store as part of your purchase price. By your logic, you should get 'all' of Apple's services because after all... 'you subsidized it all' with your iPhone purchase. Apple should get a return for inventing, developing and maintaining the App Store and it should be market forces that dictate what companies want to charge for products or services. If Apple charges too much... well we can move on.Imagine you purchase a new apartment constructed by Apple Real Estate, you now have to take a mortgage from Apple Mortgages, and get all the groceries, water, gas, electricity and insurances from Apple with a 30% markup. -
App Store changes look like a free ride to some developers
Not sure where you got this from. Got a refund on the Epic Store within 24 hours.petery said:Third party stores are a real hassle when it comes
to refunds. Apple App Store refunds occur within 48 hours.
Third party requests for refunds take forever and it’s hard to deal or find their customer service department. -
Apple teases OS redesign with new 'Sleek peek' splash page tagline
I was sarcastically joking, to suggest a meeting at the coffee corner during lunch break. I’m just shooting the shit 💩mattinoz said:
What I love about this narrative style is that it completely ignores decades of Apple history and creates a magical reality in which things just happen on a whimsical thought.CheeseFreeze said:“We don’t have anything to show for in June in respect to useful AI, Tim. We now support a new cool cartoony variety in Image Playground, but that’s it.”
”What about Vision Pro?”
”We have 16 active users now. Not exactly great ROI, Tim.”
”What we could do is skin our operating systems with the Vision Pro OS look, to get some value out of the R&D. It’ll distract our user-base from the lack of innovations. Frosted glass, please.”
sure Apple has been working on overhauling the user experience stack with swiftUI and it would make sense at some point they’d want a new look to streamline that and show off what it capable of.But hey nope Apple has the power of whimsy….
I’d have thought they’d use it to create an amazing robot machine that sits in each store and recycles your existing device in front of your eyes in to a brand new thing. -
Apple teases OS redesign with new 'Sleek peek' splash page tagline
“We don’t have anything to show for in June in respect to useful AI, Tim. We now support a new cool cartoony variety in Image Playground, but that’s it.”
”What about Vision Pro?”
”We have 16 active users now. Not exactly great ROI, Tim.”
”What we could do is skin our operating systems with the Vision Pro OS look, to get some value out of the R&D. It’ll distract our user-base from the lack of innovations. Frosted glass, please.”
