How many business ideas does that guy have that make more than $1 million a year but would also be unprofitable after 30% app store fees?

It's more a portfolio of companies that many make less, but a few hits cover the investment in the rest (the standard publishing and tech investing story). If the hits are going to take a 18% rev loss compared to say Epic's 12% store, then that's 18% less funding for the rest if things are invested efficiently/predicted well for the portfolio.

Note it's 15% on the first $1 million then 30% after, at least for Google. So you're not losing money by being just above it either.

Yeah, I'm considering where $1 million isn't a significant portion of the revenue.

Yes I’m sure you could get VC funding by selling an app on the App Store.

Yeah of course you could, why wouldn't you? That is one of the easiest ways to get VC funding, up there with making a website.

There is a huge difference between making a “service” exposed by an app and making an app.

How many successful “apps” do you know of? And most successful “services” that people access through the App Store don’t go through the App Store for payments

> There is a huge difference between making a “service” exposed by an app and making an app.

Not in terms of Apple pricing, which is what we discussed.

Yes there is a difference - most services don’t go through the App Store for payments

On top of the other replies, the million threshold impacts smaller scale investment than VC as well.