Agree on everything except patching? What does Google patch on say a netflix app?
30% is ridiculous for Apple and Google. It's an arbitrary number that they could get away with when the Appstore came out nine years ago and everyone ran with it ever since.
I don't know what a fair amount is. But I doubt it's in the two digits.
Fair is probably less than credit card co’s for base payment functionality, i.e. < 2.5%, plus some for editorial, autoupdates, decent admin UI, review.
You're forgetting that these stores act as merchants of record. They are not just payment processors. They handle VAT internationally. They do all the billing and compliance for you.
You just have one large customer in one country instead of thousands/millions in many different jurisdictions each with its own tax and consumer protection laws. That's worth more than 2.5% but it's not worth 30%.
I would say fair is somewhere between 5% and 10%, considering they also provide some distribution infrastructure on top of payments, billing, taxes and compliance.
No the stores were run by the carriers. Sprint and Verizon had an App Store before the iPhone was introduced where they sold a third party J2ME apps. Those carriers took a 70% cut.
I suppose it might have been regional, but that was never the case here. You would just download the jars (or cabs) directly from the developer. The only cut would have been the ~2% credit card processing fee.
The source being the carriers shop and scummy online shops listed on newspapers getting paid via SMS codes, which one would need to pitch before they would even consider taking their royalties.
Well, the install base is way bigger for Android, and the general state of patching in 2019 is far more frequent than it was when older platforms were operating.
30% is ridiculous for Apple and Google. It's an arbitrary number that they could get away with when the Appstore came out nine years ago and everyone ran with it ever since.
I don't know what a fair amount is. But I doubt it's in the two digits.