Gotta love the “excessive” fees according to those developers that spend just $100/year to have free:
IDE and tooling
content distribution with extreme reliability
free services like push notifications servers etc
free advertising/presence in a store that has users because Apple spends millions on advertising to get people on it
all the billing process taken care of, with refunds, subscriptions etc, accepting any currency from all the international stores
All of that but apparently asking 30% cut is “too much”. It’s not like Apple pulled a fast one on them: they knew that’s the fee to be on it, they still decided to go on it but then complain?!
The problem isn’t even that they want to charge 30% for processing app payments. They can charge whatever they want for their own services.
The problem is that Apple prevents users from installing any apps from outside their own app store, then bans developers from using any other service but Apple to process payments. It’s anticompetitive 101.
If Apple allowed 3rd party app stores or let apps implement their own payment processing, there would be no issue here.
How much would people pay for each of those items if they had a choice?
No IDE is worth 30% of your revenue, neither are all the other services. The only thing of value in that list that even comes close is unblocking the ability of your app to run on people’s devices. Ability that is otherwise blocked on purpose.
The free advertising thing is also nonsense - unless an app is already really popular or really niche, nobody is going to find it via App Store search - most likely people will just follow a website link, or learn about the app somewhere else and just search for it directly by name.
Gotta love the “excessive” fees according to those developers that spend just $100/year to have free:
All of that but apparently asking 30% cut is “too much”. It’s not like Apple pulled a fast one on them: they knew that’s the fee to be on it, they still decided to go on it but then complain?!
Entitlement…
Nobody has beef with the annual developer fee.
The problem isn’t even that they want to charge 30% for processing app payments. They can charge whatever they want for their own services.
The problem is that Apple prevents users from installing any apps from outside their own app store, then bans developers from using any other service but Apple to process payments. It’s anticompetitive 101.
If Apple allowed 3rd party app stores or let apps implement their own payment processing, there would be no issue here.
How much would people pay for each of those items if they had a choice?
No IDE is worth 30% of your revenue, neither are all the other services. The only thing of value in that list that even comes close is unblocking the ability of your app to run on people’s devices. Ability that is otherwise blocked on purpose.
The free advertising thing is also nonsense - unless an app is already really popular or really niche, nobody is going to find it via App Store search - most likely people will just follow a website link, or learn about the app somewhere else and just search for it directly by name.