When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ... by pier25 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:00PM (#23990936)

> So, they do dogfood, but obviously they are not depending on revenue to survive here.

Their pro apps are almost given away for free.

You could argue that $200 for Logic is not free, but similar DAW products costs 4-5 times more.

Not only that, but competitors need to charge you for major updates every couple of years, like any developer. Since Apple released Logic Pro X in 2013 it has kept pushing updates without asking for money.

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Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ... by wlesieutre on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:12PM (#23991047)

There's also Apple's continued refusal to allow devleopers to have separate pricing for updates vs new purchases. It's either a free update to the existing app, or it's an entirely new app listing with the same price for new users and people who owned the previous one.

I've seen this circumvented by creating a package deal of the old and new versions, which then gets discounted via the "you already own part of this set" mechanism, but it's a messy experience and not something that many developers have done.

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Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its ... by dathinab on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @06:30PM (#23992293)

This apps also can use internal APIs without faring to be removed from the app store, they can also do UX practices which are not super compatible with the guid lines and they never need to fear an arbitrary ("accidental") review block/take down.

So it's not at all feeding they own dogfood. Do do so Apple would need to run separate finances and make sure they don't get benefited in the review process.

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