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Isn’t Apple’s fee 15% now?

However, I do agree. It should be shown to the user like this.

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> Isn’t Apple’s fee 15% now?

I think both Apple and Google did that. It's a desperate attempt to avoid regulation IMO. I think both should be forced to facilitate competing app stores. There should be no mercy for them after a decade of anti-competitive price gouging.

If your app doesn't make over a certain amount. Large apps still have to

Only for developers making less that 1 million in net sales per year will the fee be 15%. For every other developer, it's still 30%.

First million is at 15% for everyone I figure?

I believe that's how Google is doing it, but Apple is not

Google does a 15% progressive fee for the first $1mil. Apple sorta does the same, though once you cross the $1mil threshold, you pay a 30% cut next year on all your sales.

Only recently in response to all this anti-trust stuff.

This article [0] says the Play Store takes 15% from the first million but Apple's store takes 30% of everything once you pass one million/year. But it also makes it clear that only a very small percentage of apps in either store make more than one million/year.

Another article [1] says 98% of developers in the Apple store would be below one million/year but also that that long tail generates only 5% of the store's revenue. There are a tiny number of apps that are enormous winners, games I assume, and there's everything else.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/data-shows-how-few-google-...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21572302/apple-app-store...

> but Apple's store takes 30% of everything once you pass one million/year

So it's much better to earn 999k instead of 1.1 million...

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