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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by eyesee on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:07PM (#24189962)
CC processing fees may exceed this. Just using Stripe [1] as an example, 2.9% + 0.30 per transaction means $.329 for retail CC pricing. Surely Apple gets a discount, but it's price of competitive alternative that matters.

Part of the problem with this whole market is that we're talking about zero marginal cost goods. Taking away frictional costs of transaction, distribution and support, the economic argument is for prices to trend towards $0. Hence the "race to the bottom" once the App Store made distribution "free" for free apps.

[1]: https://stripe.com/pricing

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by kuschku on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:47PM (#24191851)
The German GiroCard payment system is 0.125%.

The EU just limited credit card inter bank exchange fees to 0.2%.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by jagged-chisel on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:35PM (#24190298)
$0.329 for one dollar.

$0.59 in CC fees for ten dollars. That's 5.9%

$0.735 in CC fees for $15: 4.9%

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by x3c on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:04PM (#24190625)
What about other countries where micro transactions are not that expensive... eg. UPI of India.
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