Because the public are just ordinary people, of whom a small percentage are potentially the next developers, and knowing this will attract them. You are aware of marketing and business, right?
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Apple Planning to Change 30/70 Pricing Formula for In-App Media Subscriptions
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Because the public are just ordinary people, of whom a small percentage are potentially the next developers, and knowing this will attract them. You are aware of marketing and business, right?
I understand the math perfectly but 100 bucks for a year isn't a large amount of money and it is required to pay it only when one wants to deploy a project to the app store, ad-hoc or enterprise (199$ here) release. For anything else (as it seems you already know) like accessing the documentation and learning or building and testing an app in the simulator is free.
So, I strongly believe that those 100$ are not making any meaningful difference.
Here is math versus human psychology. Why? Because a Joe that thinks it has an app that could make him rich, will pay those 100$ whatsoever and regardless of what others think about his product (being a crap actually). Not to mention that some of them, would pay it only for the thrill of submitting an "app" for review and / or the "honour" of being an "iOS Developer".
Btw.. last year or a couple of years behind, at a WWDC they announced they have 6 million developers registered. How about that? Does it sound like a barrier?
Sure, if those 100$ would transform into 500$ or 1000$ (hopefully not giving any bad ideas here
) it would become a decisive factor and a great barrier for crap apps and of course for the volume of the apps submitted for review.
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I know plenty about business. I run two businesses. Nice try but if an aspiring developer wants to know Apple, Microsoft or Google's terms and conditions they simply go to their developer site for qualifications. Your point is nothing more than an entitlement saying the public is entitled to know all the business dealings of corporations.
Speaking of entitlement. Apparently I'm not entitled to express my opinion on the matter because I'm not following the majority being everybody's fanboy here. I never posted a rebuttal to anybody's opinion other than when they shot down mine. This is not a pity party. Let people speak the way they feel and stop trying to get me to understand your way is the only way. Sheesh.
I understand the math perfectly but 100 bucks for a year isn't a large amount of money and it is required to pay it only when one wants to deploy a project to the app store, ad-hoc or enterprise (199$ here) release. For anything else (as it seems you already know) like accessing the documentation and learning or building and testing an app in the simulator is free.
So, I strongly believe that those 100$ are not making any meaningful difference.
Here is math versus human psychology. Why? Because a Joe that thinks it has an app that could make him rich, will pay those 100$ whatsoever and regardless of what others think about his product (being a crap actually). Not to mention that some of them, would pay it only for the thrill of submitting an "app" for review and / or the "honour" of being an "iOS Developer".
Sure, if those 100$ would transform into 500$ or 1000$ (hopefully not giving any bad ideas here
We're talking in circles and repeating much of what the other is saying. So I'll just say I agree with 80% of what you're saying.
I agree with you on some points also.
Sorry if we've been talking in circles, it certainly wasn't my intention. English is not my main language (also, here's 3 am
) so I might have missed some subtleties of what you said.
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*Were we? Where? Oh yes... never.
#defensive
Have a nice weekend, enjoy something outside the internet and your own thoughts on things.
They definitely don't use "MscRumours," but on occasion they've been known to frequent MacRumors
Elon Msk notwithstanding.
At the beginning. Works for me.
Maybe 99.985/0.015?
I think that's what Apple Pay is.
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Huh? I don't know what you mean. If you think I meant 0 is impossible, I was referring to the fact it is technically impossible for a developer to avoid using any of Apple services when submitting an app to the app store. One way or another, you're using an Apple service that is funded by the 30% cut you give to Apple.
The talk is more 10 or maybe 15%. in a way it makes sense. Most of the apps it's a one time thing. $14.99 and you are done for life. But with something like HBONow that's $14.99 every month. It makes sense that Apple would cut back how much they get every month to get more months paid via the store. And when the choice is 10% every month from someone like Netflix or nothing, Apple would likely rather have the 10%
I know this has a lot to do with developers & their apps they create, but I think it has much more to do with TV networks wanting more of a cut from Apple's upcoming web TV service.
Oy Vey. Thank heavens there's an emoji to express how I feel about this post so I don't have to say it and get banned.
So on the cusp of Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (an event Apple has put on for over 20yrs for "...the most amazing developer community in the world...") what is your general opinion on third party devs and their role in the success or failure of hardware and/or software platforms?
Just for reassurances, I do think you are entitled to an opinion, please speak the way you feel, and, no, I'm not trying to convince you that my way is the only way.
You're good enough, you're smart enough, and, doggone it, people like you.
Apple has $200 billion dollars in the bank, they can afford it.
Get real, Apple has talked about that the 30/70 split openly many times. And it is absolutely clear that we cannot buy media content in a lot of apps because of this high percentage. Lower that percentage noticeably and that can start to change. Thus the end result will not stay the same.
This is a rumours site, we come here because we want to know things that aren't public knowledge (yet). Why are you even here and read article about unconfirmed rumours if talking about stuff that isn't part of a press release appalls you? Just for the purpose of berating people because that makes you feel better?
Don't think of it as Apple gets 30% of the cut. Think of it as a 30% markup, and you will realize its far less of a markup then many businesses. [/QUOTE]
I completely agree with that part, but I specifically didn't go that route because I didn't want people arguing with me about markup costs for retail sales (and I didn't think I needed to go there to make my point). I tried to stick with places offering places to sell your products and their markup for performing that transaction for you (since the person I was replying to said it should be 2-3%).
Gary
It's nice that you think that, but I don't think I was "supporting" anything.
I was giving one specific example responding to someone who was acting like this would NOT change the way people used apps (although they really only speaking about themselves).
Gary
Obviously reading comprehension isn't a strong suit around here. We are talking services that these apps provide, not through iTunes or the app store, but through their own servers. Things like MS Office 360, ebooks, music services - services that you can access through many platforms, including web browsers. What business does Apple have making any money off these independent services?
If Apple wants to make money for payment processing, app hosting on the iTunes store, etc., then they should charge for that. The fact that they don't charge any fees for free apps isn't the developers prerogative.
I feel like if Apple changes the 70/30 split for one thing, they'll change it for everything. So everything will move to an 85/15 split.