Google Lowers Play Store Subscription Fee From 30% to 15%

[I7guy]

Wow! Change is happening. Next up
Is Apple. Please lower the subscription fee. Apple you make a lot of money via services alone.

Apple already has a small business program. Google was trying to get with the times.

 

[Abazigal]

You can buy Android devices from other than Google but you can only buy iOS devices from Apple. That's definition of monopoly for Apple.

And I can only buy a Nintendo switch from Nintendo, or a PS5 console from Sony. By your reasoning, Apple is a monopoly even if it has sold just one iPhone, so long as it remains the only means of getting one. It's also the very reason why the courts ruled Apple to not be a monopoly, because there are multiple ways of accessing Fortnite, and the iOS App Store is just one of them.

Having a monopoly on a particular product does not constitute having a monopoly on the industry, not when there's an alternative that opponents love to tout as having more market share than Apple. Or are we doing this whole revisionist history rubbish again?

 

[SurferPup]

It is a scary world when complimentary businesses and non enterprise entities decide how a corporation should be run.

 

[frownface]

Wait, so it wasn’t only Apple that had the outrageous 30% fee?? Did the courts know this?? How come Apple didn’t point this out?? /s

Because everyone knows that no one's ever paid for anything on android for it to matter.

/s

 

[frownface]

Epic's lawsuits may have been frivolous; but it was the first pebble rolling down a hill to which we're starting to see an avalanche.

Even if epic get nothing out of it, us developers and consumers will benefit in the long term.

 

[Abazigal]

Epic's lawsuits may have been frivolous; but it was the first pebble rolling down a hill to which we're starting to see an avalanche.

Even if epic get nothing out of it, us developers and consumers will benefit in the long term.

Mainly the developers (and even then, arguably the larger developers over the smaller ones). Not so much consumers, as you will see.

 

[Piggie]

Users spend more on iOS than Android, so this isn’t big news. 15% of nothing is still nothing.

We all know iOS generates more overall revenue than the Android app store,
But perhaps it would be nice to check facts first.

I'd hardly call this "Nothing"

At Google I/O, the largest Android developer conference, Google touted 150,000 developers responsible for over 800,000 apps. While the company does not break out revenue numbers on their apps, recent data in their financial filings seemed to indicate somewhere around $900 million in pay-outs to developers "over the last 12 months" and discussions with external research analysts put the number of downloaded apps from the Google Play store at around 48 billion, close to what Apple has claimed

 

[svish]

Pressure is now on Apple

 

[I7guy]

Epic's lawsuits may have been frivolous; but it was the first pebble rolling down a hill to which we're starting to see an avalanche.

Even if epic get nothing out of it, us developers and consumers will benefit in the long term.

Consumers won't benefit one iota. Apple already has a small business program. Google was forced into following that lead. Developers will pocket the difference with no benefit to consumers.

 

[mi7chy]

Mainly the developers (and even then, arguably the larger developers over the smaller ones). Not so much consumers, as you will see.

Savings will trickle down to consumers. Won't save mobile gaming anyway since I stopped buying mobile crapplets that all follow the repetitive grind or pay IAPs model when Steam AAA games cost the same.

 

[genovelle]

winner still the developer . epic done it. But it reality to get profit both android and ios is hard. unless big boys

They are actually loosing. If Apple does not see enough profit from any segment it’s resources get sent elsewhere. That’s why they have killed off seemingly popular devices or categories in the past. Once they stop investing so will their competitors. They always follow Apple’s lead in these things. Once New APIs available to 3rd party apps and features grind to a halt, developers will stagnate and sales will drop. Apple will stop spending hundreds of millions per year marketing the App Store and featuring New apps which is how these companies have become successful in the first place.

Apple does not have to maintain a platform for other companies. They can just focus on making the best products in house and let all others be web apps that requires no input from them. Hell Google kills stuff every month.