Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by skunkworker on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:01PM (#25143798)

I was doing some back of the napkin math earlier today to figure out just how much bandwidth Fortnite on the App Store has done over it's lifetime.

Assuming 116 million ios users with a 2.5 to 5gb depending on the device. That's 580 petabytes just for the initial download, not to mention updates probably push it into the low single digit exabytes range.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by jimnotgym on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:49PM (#25144301)

So what, Apple should bill them some bandwidth fees? Make them host it themselves maybe?

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by st3fan on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:02PM (#25144421)

No the argument above is that those 580 Petabytes should be covered by the $100 developer program membership.

How much does 580 PT cost at AWS?

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by heavyset_go on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:05PM (#25145003)

If you needed to serve petabytes of data, you'd be throwing a lot of money away on storage and traffic costs using AWS over other solutions.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by chucky_z on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:16PM (#25144574)

~445k in s3 costs according to aws calc, using a naive "there is 1 object in the bucket, it's been fetched 116 million times, and that used 580PB of fetch bandwidth."

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