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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by robertlagrant on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:05PM (#27257615)
Billions in revenue on $99/year? Is 1% of the planet a paid up iOS developer?
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by gigel82 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:40PM (#27258392)
Math much? 20 million (that's 3-year old numbers [1]) apple developers. Probably a lot of them on the $299 enterprise plan, but let's assume they're all using the $99 one. 20mil * $100 = $2 billions. QED

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/04/app-store-hits-20m-registe...

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by altncatchfire on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:51PM (#27258485)
To be fair, the 1% isn't off either.

The figure available was "billions". For ease of calculation, say it was 7b. That means if each developer pays $100 and total revenue was 7b, 1% of the world must be a developer. (1% of 7b * $100 = $7b)

Also, by your own figure, 20 million is already ~0.25% of the world population.

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