Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by justapassenger on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:23PM
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It wasn’t THAT much lower, compared to today, if you include things like advertising costs you need to pay today, to get your app to sell.
It works differently and you have different middle mans, but it’s not that much different for an average joe.
It was necessary to make a deal to sell through a software distribution company (for example Ingram Micro) because brick and mortar chains would not deal with software developers directly, and they took a cut.
The retailer took another cut and required things like unsold inventory be returnable, cost sharing for newspaper sales circulars in the Sunday paper, and fees for shelf space.