Told yall. Everyone's all like they'll reduce the prices of alt store apps. Told you they'd charge the same or more because of overhead but nope, gotta have the "choices".
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Epic Games to Charge 12% Fee for App Sales From Alternative iPhone Store
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Did Apple hurt your feelings?
Is it about being a hypocrite or about a business just making profit every which way they can? Epic only cares about making money, and I am not judging them for that. But Apple is no more a "gatekeeper" than Microsoft or Sony are with their consoles. Any business can choose who they do business with and on what terms. If the other party doesn't like those terms they don't have to say yes. App developers with coding skills can code for any platform they wish. If they want to largest reach and to get the help of the businesses who can instantly reach millions....there is a price to pay. It is "just business" and Epic is now playing their part in trying to make money off of people who want to use them for a service.
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I’ll be def getting stuff from their store, I don’t think that will be any less safe.
QC at Apple is simply a myth, there is plenty of garbage there too!
I like how Epic charging anything at all for distribution on their completely optional app store on a device which they themselves don't produce is leading a bunch of geniuses to call them hypocrites.
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According to people on here, shouldn’t the fee for Epic be 0%? Why is Epic charging 12%?
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According to people on here, shouldn’t the fee for Epic be 0%? Why is Epic charging 12%?
Sure, QC at Apple isn't perfect. But I don't know why you think EPIC will be similar.
Why def? There's no reason to believe that EPIC or the devs will pass that 3% to 18% to you.
Also, my experience with the Epic Games Launcher is awful. Fortnite on the app store was much better.
But if the market is a fraction of the size because nobody buys from your store does it really matter how good the cut is?
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It's totally OK if Apple charges a fee.
As long as the fee is competitively determined between different stores.
Yes, Apple if a business that is run well enough to make enormous profit. This is accomplished through multiple, diverse revenue streams as all good businesses should function. Also, like any business if you take a very profitable revenue stream and stop it, it is not preferable and the business would likely try to prevent it.
Maybe not the feeling, but his/her wallet.
30% transaction costs are too high for digital downloads. Simple as that.
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Because even if I pay the same price the dev will get a little more, and I prefer devs getting the money rather than a huge Company ( no matter which ).
Because I would support Epic for trying to change things ( yes I know they did for their own good, but devs get a little in return as well ).
Because I like choices… that’s why.
As a business, Apple has the right to charge whatever they want for providing the AppStore, app hosting, development tools, APIs, etc. It's up to the Developer to decide whether to accept it or not. If not happy, go develop for Android, Blackberry, Palm, etc.
Here's one more thing. When a dev uses their own payment processor, and it's a scam app, where does the consumer go? Is EPIC going to protect the consumer?
Really, did you forget that hosts pay a fee for internet bandwidth and traffic usage?
Electricity, Cloud space, backup storage, and a countless more of expenses?
It's not that simple. Wait until you have to cover all those expenses for you to change your mind.
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E-Commerce hosting, transaction fees, Web Designer/Maintainer/Webmaster salaries, etc...
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Gonna make an App Store distributed inside of Epic's App Store and charge 11%
You certainly should follow your morals/beliefs/etc... But just consider that the developer getting 85% of a vastly smaller audience and thereby a vastly smaller revenue amount would actually make the developer earn LESS money not more. As someone who regularly works with App Developers (bizdev stuff) I don't know ANY who are going to pursue another store because they don't want to decimate their revenues!
Now they don’t have to, they can still keep their Apple sale at a bigger margin for themselves, how is that a bad thing?
No - Apple had a monopoly on app distribution (to consumers) on iOS.
There's no competition on App Stores to buy a $5 or $50 app, if a customer just bought a $1000 iPhone.
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They can sell on both store, they don’t have to pick either or.
Don’t see how they would lose customers.
You also have to think smaller dev, once you put your app into the Apple Store you are one between too many other apps to be discovered, unless you pay to get promotion.
You might have better visibility in a smaller store.
Also EU is not that small of a market to begin with.
Apple is in the experiences business.
Epic is in the whine business.
Epic is in the whine business.
So it looks like in the end is a win for Epic. I wonder if the EU would have even imposed rules for Apple to follow if Epic did not sue in the first place.