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What percentage of revenue do App Store apps generate for Apple?

It seems like an unusual hill to die on for a high-margin business like Apple. It's definitely making the experience worse for everyone and highlighting all the drawbacks of having a single source of software for your device.

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I don’t know, but it’s part of the “services” revenue that they need to continue growth now that hardware sales are flat(ish). Apple now has bad incentives to rent-seek, and it’s showing.

Mobile gaming money is a big deal, and ebook market would have been too if Amazon caved.

Yes it is. It’s not the mobile gaming crowd that’s screaming the loudest. They are making money from in app purchases from whales for loot boxes and tokens. Their margins are basically 0 for in app purchases. It’s the app developers that are reselling licensed content or that have a server component who are complaining the loudest.

Yes. I think that’s Apple has put itself in a weird position where the most vocal devs are making them the least money at this point.

But if they make an exception to give these devs what they want, mobile gaming devs will be next banging at the door to get their fees lifted up (well, they are effectively already banging the door pretty loud, like Epic for instance)

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