Comment by transpute
1 year ago
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/6/1.html
> For more than 90 percent of the billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem, developers did not pay any commission to Apple.
Would the remaining 10 percent of App Store sales have meaningful competition from a CLI (no GUI) terminal VM that enables development workflows on iPad?
> developers did not pay any commission to Apple
That's certainly a take. The developer fee is $99 a year, that HAS to be paid to put something on the App Store.
Sure they are not getting commision on the download, but they ARE getting their pound of flesh from the developer fee.
An estimated 3M iOS developers would generate $300M developer fee revenue.
App store revenue is around $100B, or 300X estimated developer fees.
Still, "developers did not pay any commission to Apple" is wrong.
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