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Re:TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps by francisd on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @06:10PM (#1789100)
The developer pays $1 + app cost, they in turn will receive 70% of the app cost from Apple. So the effective cost per user acquisition for a $0.99 app is $1.30.
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Re:TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps by barlo on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @06:13PM (#1789110)
Good point about 70% of the cost being returned by Apple, I forgot to include that. That makes things seem a lot more reasonable.
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