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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Criticizes Apple Over App Store Price Increases
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Doesn't Google Play also take a 30% cut?
The CEO of a company not allowed on the App Store. Yeah, his opinion is relevant. 
Actually, if an app makes 1M, Apple's cut is reduced to 15%. For smaller developers.
This price increase has nothing to do with that. The 30% cut remains the same; the developer gets 83 cents instead of 69, and Apple gets 36 instead of 30.
you're saying the developers wouldn't survive without the app store? you guys are giving the app store way too much credit here 😂
actually, if an app makes less than 1m, apple's cut is reduced to 15%, for smaller developers.
And if the tenent paid in Euro's, but the lease was in dollars, then is the landlord supposed to take a 20% cut in their rent? No. This is a currency issue, and it happens with every business that works across multiple currencies.
This is an opportunistic antagonist looking to bash Apple.
This is an opportunistic antagonist looking to bash Apple.
Yeah, but if you have to put prices up to meet the new rent it’s the same thing.
While I may somehow agree official sideloading should still be a thing for people that would take liability to what they install, Tim Epic is still a big hypocrite. The percentage cut isn't just for operating costs. It's also the visibility you may get when you publish an app in the App Store (though, the 99$ developer account you pay for upfront is debatable). Heck, he even argued 8% should be enough for operation, yet his own store takes 12-13%! If he's this... benevolent or developer savior person that he tries to portray himself as, why does he not make his store take 8% only as he so suggested?
30% has been the standard for many years, yet it's only Apple that's getting the short end of the stick. Why now? Because they're making too much money out of it?
This just all sound like a ploy from the start to make his own store be more attractive, when the things he say/do and his store just does the opposite. He even pays developers to make a game exclusive to his own store (and that developers' own store if it exists), which Steam (their competitor) never did.
30% has been the standard for many years, yet it's only Apple that's getting the short end of the stick. Why now? Because they're making too much money out of it?
This just all sound like a ploy from the start to make his own store be more attractive, when the things he say/do and his store just does the opposite. He even pays developers to make a game exclusive to his own store (and that developers' own store if it exists), which Steam (their competitor) never did.
Where is the Epic Fortnite banner? That Apple store banner is boring! lol
or, how about this, you just don't sideload yourself, and let the rest of us who does be, not a hard concept to get around no?
The Billion iOS users that Apple has built an enormous amount of trust. Remember, any company can create their own platform and attract their own customers and have them signup directly and offer a free app that accesses their platform. Think Netflix or even Spotify. If they need Apple to acquire customers or Apple’s API and platform, they should and will pay a commission.
Actually, it's called the "Exchange rate" and since the US dollar is the defacto base currency and Apple is a US company, they use the dollar as the gauge to keep other prices consistent. Well mostly.
Australia is copping it in the neck, too, by the way. We pay what we call the "far, far away tax." But think about what would happen if Apple didn't do this (because years ago, they didn't do it so much). People in Australia could (and did) buy products from Apple at effectively lower prices in one country versus another. They could even perhaps circumvent paying appropriate taxes in a country for the item. Governments don't tend to like that.
So while it sucks, I understand it. Blame the global economy, Russia, China, Covid and value-added taxes. But it's a bit rich to lay it at Apple's feet.
And, more to the point, the developer sets a price and (shocker) Apple marks it up to get a 30% cut. Just like any store does.
The developer gets whatever price they want for the app.
And Apple tells the developer the terms upfront. Some people in here act like they steal the money from the dev.
And if they don't raise prices, he'd complain about how the unanimity of the store isn't nimble enough.
P*ss off.
P*ss off.
Guy runs a company that tries to empty the piggy bank of every child that plays their game and thinks he can take the moral high ground.
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iPhones users represent one of the most valuable consumer segment and this guy wants to monetize them directly without paying any commission. That is all, everything else is just rationalizations and and PR.
