Re:Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
by jt2190 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:42PM
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> Apple / Google’s 30% take is the anti-competitive elephant in the room here, not a few crumbs thrown to small developers.
This percentage is something that small businesses feel, but is not really what makes the marketplace for apps “anti-competitive”, and personally I think it’s a distraction from the main issue:
Is the total addressable market for “apps” defined by and exclusive to a single platform (iOS, Android, etc.) or not?
How you answer this makes the percentage either a number arrived at through a competitive market or a “tax”.
This percentage is something that small businesses feel, but is not really what makes the marketplace for apps “anti-competitive”, and personally I think it’s a distraction from the main issue:
Is the total addressable market for “apps” defined by and exclusive to a single platform (iOS, Android, etc.) or not?
How you answer this makes the percentage either a number arrived at through a competitive market or a “tax”.