Fear of Apple - Hackdot

Re:Fear of Apple by tomjen3 on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @04:47PM (#9259370)

Or, more realistically, he could pay shit all for a domain name (.io, .ly is so last year) 10 usd/month for a VPS, 3% to Stripe (which is criminally high, but there you go) and have access to the global market. He is more likely to get customers and he isn't constrained to change pennies.

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Re:Fear of Apple by coldtea on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @10:23PM (#9260911)

People have tried that, e.g. with Android apps. It doesn't turn out to be much better, actually quite worse sales wise.

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Re:Fear of Apple by tomjen3 on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @12:01PM (#9263781)

Apparently I didn't make the comment very clear: he should build a webapp instead. Make it a game if you want, but build it outside their walled gardens.

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Re:Fear of Apple by coldtea on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:56PM (#9265488)

But web-based games/apps don't sell very well at all, compared to iOS and Android native apps (even if the native are built with the same web technologies).

Unless it's a service website, the monetization for web apps just isn't up to par.

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Re:Fear of Apple by booruguru on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @09:22PM (#9260722)

> 3% to Stripe (which is criminally high, but there you go)

Compared to what? I thought Stripe was famous for offering competitive fees.

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Re:Fear of Apple by tomjen3 on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @12:00PM (#9263773)

Sure, thats the problem. You pay 3% of the transaction for them to make a couple of entries in a database. It is laughable, when you consider that hosting and access to the VPS cost very little.

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