Give EPIC the credit it deserves rather than the people who hate on the lawsuit by being unreasonable.
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Apple Drops App Store Fees to 15% for All Developers Making Under $1 Million From App Store
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Give EPIC the credit it deserves rather than the people who hate on the lawsuit by being unreasonable.
Good job - this allows devs with much less ability to cover their overheads get some great stuff out to the marketplace.
I have been looking it over and it is confusing. Is the 1M gross or net? At 1M gross it appears to come out to be $1,428,571.42 gross. The cross check of 1M/0.7 - 1M/0.7*0.3 = IM works so that looks like the correct value.
How on earth would reducing fees for smaller developers have any impact on security? I don’t see any change in the level of incentive one would have or not have to “rush to the App Store with malicious code.”
Correct. It's Apple's choice to back down in the light of widespread criticism and potential litigation and monopolies referrals.
So many posters here were adamant that the fees should not be changed whenever a story of a lawsuit was posted. I don’t see many dissenters now?
I was of the opinion that the fee was fair, because it was what they signed up for. Apple never pretended they set up the App Store as a gift. 30% is pretty high, yes, but the market clearly could bear it.
That said, I’m happy for the small developers that it’s being lowered for them. I think a two-tier system makes a lot of sensed, especially as it encourages indie devs to keep updating their apps and not make them orphans.
One can reasonably think the original contract was fair, and simultaneously be happy with the change.
Obviously that’s how it’s going to be implemented.
Still balk every time I see that 30% figure anyway. 30 per cent!
This is a really good move all round, from a PR perspective an a business one for the smaller devs. But still... thirty per cent!
This is a really good move all round, from a PR perspective an a business one for the smaller devs. But still... thirty per cent!
Apple is a reasonable and rational company when Steve Jobs was still the commander of the corporation.
Yep, its exactly a response to the regulatory commissions that are unhappy with their fees. The worlds most profitable company won't notice this change.
Are you sure? It's not at all clear that that's how it's going to be implemented, and the explanation suggests that it isn't the case. It's not a progressive taxation system, it looks to be a flat cut-off point.
Thats ridiculous. It’s like you have never paid taxes to understand how the progressive scale works. Of course the 1st million will be at the 15% commission fee regardless if you exceed 1 million in sales. Once you exceed the 1st million, the fee will go up to 30% on the sales that exceed the first million dollars in sales and not on the entire sale volume.
That’s the number ($1,428,571) that makes sense to me based on the article. There could be some misunderstanding somewhere, we’ll find out more shortly I think.
An extra 15% of 1.43MM puts another $214k into the dev’s pocket. At least that’s how I read it.
This isn't what EPIC wants, they don't get the EPIC game store on iOS and they don't get more money for themselves. Apple now give smaller devs more money and still do more for their cut than EPIC (Such as handling sales tax and VAT).
Exactly, it is a shame that the world's most valuable tech company (Apple) can't lead with a good example before the antitrust lawsuit.
This is so much stupid. It is like when people think someone paying 45% TAX is somehow at a disadvantage to someone on min wage. That person on 45% TAX gets more money.
US tax laws work the same way this Apple policy does. Do you think that people just stop making money at $1 million to not pay more in taxes? Nope.
That's not what it means and you misunderstood my point, it does not make a lot of sense for the people who achieved million of sales due to diligent work and forced to pay more due to exceeding a threshold.
Sorry, but I expect there to be another side to this, some other restriction, etc. We'll see and I hope I am wrong.
30% is roughly half of what it cost when my company sold shrink wrap software at retail (Egghead Software, anyone? lol.) Wholesale distributors took 50-55% of our selling price.