If your app is a high-risk large investment for a high revenue but lowish margin product, it swallows your entire margin. And then people wonder why AAA games studios mostly avoid the mobile platforms.
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"We don't look at the appstore as a separate business, we look at it as an integrated part of our entire business" ... uh, yes, that's why the antitrust committee is looking at it
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"we don't favor our own apps [like Apple music that comes preinstalled] over third party apps [like Spotify that doesn't] in the search via the appstore"
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Amazing they get away with statements like this that are so incredibly, incredibly disingenuous
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So if the numbers are right that Apple makes $15-$18bn for the appstore but costs $100m to run, that means they're making a 150x margin on the appstore. Or IOW, a 1% charge for exactly the same service would *still* net Apple just shy of a half-billion dollars in profit per year
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And spare me the "but we put so much money into developer tools". iOS developer tools *suck*. Xcode is actual garbage compared with equiv tools on other platforms (like Visual Studio), and you already pay $99/yr for a dev cert for the "privilege" of being an iOS developer.
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Of course Visual Studio is fantastic, but so is Xcode. We offer it anywhere from free for some all the way to $10,000 per seat. The cost of Apple developer tools and SDKs is probably about a billion dollars a year, and they are free. Different business models.
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As someone who's developed in both for a long time, using XCode just feels like being forced to use a slightly buggier and slower version of VS from 2006 or so. Even VSCode leaves it in the dust on everything from performance to code completion.
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(and to be clear, I'm comparing with the free VS SKUs)
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Free tools are subsidized by other revenue streams. In our case, Enterprise sales.
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Another happy customer takes a delivery of Visual Studio!
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