I guess we should all expect AT&T to take a 30% cut of Apple's profits, since they're the ones who initially sold you the iPhone, and provide the service that makes it work...
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I guess we should all expect AT&T to take a 30% cut of Apple's profits, since they're the ones who initially sold you the iPhone, and provide the service that makes it work...
There are a couple things to consider here. One is that the store actually purchases those items at a set rate. Apple has brick and mortar stores that do this. Apps don't work that way. Apple effectively takes a commission. They do not purchase the product at any point.
The way you wrote 200k/hr suggests you aren't computing in US dollars. People generally read 200k as 200,000 USD. Even $200/hr seems highly unlikely. That would be over 400,000 USD before benefits. I get the issue of office space and support, but you don't really give any indication of how you arrived at that figure. You also don't mention what leads you to believe that the app store is barely profitable.
Wait, what?! There's no way that's right. Not a single streaming company I can think of is Apple-only besides Apple. Did I misread or something?
If they had done that, Apple would have gone to Verizon instead. The difference here is that Apple has such a strong control over this market that they can strong-arm app publishers into these restrictive terms. Google doesn't do it because they couldn't get away with it, so I would strongly suspect Apple of abusing market power.
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I did some searching around, and I learned that the App Store is roughly a billion dollar a year business. That's a small cut of the whole Apple pie, but it's not like they're suffering much.
Apple benefits of the platform for sure. That doesn't mean it should offer it up for free to other companies. Particularly if the said company is charging the end user for the use of their apps, why shouldn't apple charge them for using the appstore?
Nothing is free. You can't expect to gain access to the vast, lucrative market built and maintained by someone else, for free. You can always get around it like Spotify is now doing with emails, but not by inserting a link designed to circumvent the payment mechanism built into the platform. No reason for Apple to allow that.
… which would be fine advice if there were any competing store fronts around. Last time I checked, Google Play doesn't sell iOS apps. Don't you early responders think ANYTHING through?
Hit them hard, real hard. Love Spotify. Hope the EU gets involved quickly too.
Apple is wrong. They charged 30% to devs for every app purchased, that's a one time fee. Why the **** do they charge 30% every month for a service they don't offer? Is spotify running on apple servers? NO! Apple has been doing this for too long but now that they have their own music streaming service they won't be able to get away with it.
Supercell(Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Hay Day) God of War. Just to name a few off the top of my head.
Spotify are just being greedy whiney scumbags who want to use Apple's goodwill and not pay for it. If they were genuine and smart, they should split the $3 Apple fee with the user and advertise online purchase for $8.99 or buy from App store for $9.99.
They may not be running subscriptions on Apple's servers, but they are having Apple process the monthly fees through iTune's payment system. Yes, 30% is high for this service, but this is why Apple is charging them. 30% cut for Apple on all monies taken in. Spotify should (and it appears they are) follow Amazon's Kindle app route, and take payments directly.
This is excellent news.
Regardless of any illegality, the 30% fee needs to be reduced substantially, not just for Spotify but for everyone in the App Store.
Regardless of any illegality, the 30% fee needs to be reduced substantially, not just for Spotify but for everyone in the App Store.
You surely missed to put the sarcasm tag, because it is sarcasm, isn't?
Heres your problem and its not apple
educate your people , educate your children as this stuff should be common knowledge
educate your people , educate your children as this stuff should be common knowledge
Correction, they are forced to use its payment processing system.
Amazon Kindle doesn't take payments, they can't
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I don't get this. Apple rents them space in its house to display their product
and now these anti trust people want apple to allow them to display signs saying its cheaper else where.
How many shops on the high street would allow this?
walk into a clothes shop and all the stickers say its cheaper up the road.
what the f.... k!
come on the problem is the shoppers dumbness not apples. Go in one shop/onto a website go to another, decide which is the better deal. Buy in shop/on site of your choice.
and now these anti trust people want apple to allow them to display signs saying its cheaper else where.
How many shops on the high street would allow this?
walk into a clothes shop and all the stickers say its cheaper up the road.
what the f.... k!
come on the problem is the shoppers dumbness not apples. Go in one shop/onto a website go to another, decide which is the better deal. Buy in shop/on site of your choice.
This is what happens when you get too much money. Someone somewhere goes after you.
It would be trivially easy for Spotify to set up a payments system, because they already have. It's the same payment system you use if you buy on desktop. The trouble is that they are not allowed to build it into an iOS app, which is outrageous. It's Apple's payment system or nothing. This is also why Amazon's Kindle and Audible apps don't include a function for buying books. They'd need to pay Apple 30% of every sale.
Apps that allow the purchase of real-world goods like eBay and Kickstarter seem to get a free pass, which makes it all the more bemusing why media platforms like Spotify have to pay the 30% levy.
If I was apple I would ask for a reciprocating deal if they happen to loose this. Spotify etc allow apple to put a add on their sites saying how much better the user experience is with apple when purchasing through apple. See how they like that.
They're selling their product through apple and to do that they have to have a space to do it. This is often called rent. Once they leave the space is open to someone else. Apple has a lot of space.