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Apple Actually Cuts Fees

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Sean Locke Photography:
More money for developers, yet we keep going in the opposite direction.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/apple-to-cut-app-store-fees-in-half-to-15-for-most-developers

cobalt:
I wish apple had a digital media store as well. they could buy a smaller player like dreamstime and integrate that.

Jo Ann Snover:
Apple's cut is mostly PR and not real income loss for them.

Apparently (NY Times) 98% of App Store developers fit into that under $1 million in revenues group that now pays 15%, but they account for only 5% of Apple's App Store revenues.

Put another way, 95% of Apple's app-store revenues just keep on * as before.

So it's more like stock agencies offering newbies a 50/50 split but switching back to taking 80% (or more) once you get to $500 in earnings.

Apple wants to keep congress out of its business; The Epic lawsuit has also played a part. I hope Apple's thin veneer of reasonableness (the new cut) doesn't dissuade regulators.

However that dust-up plays out, our mess is more akin to Uber or Lyft or another setup where there are no big companies in the contributor/driver community.

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