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A comment on Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic. Parent comment

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by valuearb on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:32PM (#25144718)
I can distribute terabytes of my free apps every month without paying a penny to Apple. And all the time getting support, tools, etc from them.

And Apple has thousands of highly paid employees providing all those services to us, it’s misguided to assert its just the cost of bandwidth and servers.

The $100 is a screaming deal for us iOS developers.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:40PM (#25144795)
> I can distribute terabytes of my free apps every month without paying a penny to Apple.

Very few apps do that.

> it’s misguided to assert its just the cost of bandwidth and servers.

Good thing they didn't make that argument.

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