Re:Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs
by michaelmrose on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:06AM
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Apple gets paid per unit of value that changes hands. What do you imagine their actual costs are for automatically vetting a 1 dollar game and transmitting it to a million users over one year.
S3 storage / bandwidth prices according to google is $0.021 per GB per month for storage and $0.085 per GB of transfer
so approx 3c for storage $8500 for transfer if we pretend that apple has to pay so much. In reality its probably much lower.
They would earn 75000 by taking 7.5% so nearly 9x the cost of executing so one would imagine that could easily cover any overhead.
In practice the revenue generated 26.5 billion for developers and 11.5 billion for apple in 2017. Even 2.5% would be almost a billion dollars 7.5% would be almost 3 billion dollars. I'm betting that apple can run an app store for 1-3 billion in a competitive market.
S3 storage / bandwidth prices according to google is $0.021 per GB per month for storage and $0.085 per GB of transfer so approx 3c for storage $8500 for transfer if we pretend that apple has to pay so much. In reality its probably much lower.
They would earn 75000 by taking 7.5% so nearly 9x the cost of executing so one would imagine that could easily cover any overhead.
In practice the revenue generated 26.5 billion for developers and 11.5 billion for apple in 2017. Even 2.5% would be almost a billion dollars 7.5% would be almost 3 billion dollars. I'm betting that apple can run an app store for 1-3 billion in a competitive market.