Yeah, you're absolutely right, I changed it to "adore" because of their products. Your viewpoint is much more healthy than my first version of my post.I love my wife, my children and the rest my family, but would never love a company.
You know it's a one sided love, right? Okay they love your wallet, that's it!
And you don't see how running ads without the developer's consent or knowledge is sketchy?
Exactly! And even IF it does mean that it becomes more expensive for the developer to buy that same ad space and direct it to the commission free sign up link, I can't imagine that a "free" subscriber at 70% revenue would earn them less than a "paid for" subscriber (in the sense of the dev having to pay for ad space to get the subscriber) at 100%. I guess it COULD be that way...but I dunno...if a company offered to pay for all my online advertising and take a 30% cut...which included payment processing, hosting etc...I would 100% take them up on that offer. No risk...no expense...only upside as far as I can see!
Tell your wife, children and the rest your family that your wallet is closed and then see how one sided their love is.I love my wife, my children and the rest my family, but would never love a company.
You know it's a one sided love, right? Okay they love your wallet, that's it!
Ummm...as I stated in my previous post...as a business owner myself...I would take this deal all day long! And the whole consent thing...I guess it depends on your worldview! Would you complain if somebody deposited $1000 in your bank account WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT?
But these companies are already running their own ads. So Apple is running up the cost of their advertising as well as taking the 30% cut.
This may not be a popular opinion, but not everything that one develops is free and clear of fees to sell. Unfortunately we live in a world, where if you develop into an eco-system, there might be fees associated with selling into that eco-system. Apple didn't develop an app eco system for them to allow for a free of fees marketplace. Large companies have to think about revenue for everything they do. It's unfortunately the way these big companies stay in business and offer the innovations and conveniences we embrace when Apple puts out their products. With that said....I do think that putting out ads for third party apps without at least a notification to that third party is a little shady, however I do think there is an argument to be made that if Apple is putting ads out for your app, you will most likely be getting more traffic and potentially more revenue than if they weren't putting out an ad for your app.
That's an overly simplistic way of looking at it. It's not like these companies aren't already running their own ads. Apple is driving up the cost of running ads in order to also take a percentage of the money that devs could have had 100% of if they had made the sale themselves.
Yup.
Heh ? , there is no mine or hers, both of us work, we one bank account… actually i have to push her to buy stuff… ? else she would still be using her 2014 MacBook Pro.
This is more about subscription-based apps where the dev can offer subscriptions through their own website rather than the App Store and keep all of the profits - Apple's trying to stop customers 'buying direct', instead diverting customers to itself as an unnecessary middleman so it can take a 30% cut.
Walmart advertises itself. There's no confusion about who the ad is coming from even though they may be advertising that they stock Colgate products. In fact, even in situations like this, if you're doing anything other than listing a product in a catalogue, you generally need the brand to sign off on the messaging.
