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AlDante2 | 2 years ago
Apple isn't a monopoly, by any stretch of the imagination. 13% of the US market in Macs, 25% in mobile phones. Starbucks has a markup of 90%. Named brand spices, 100%. Hotel mini-bars, 400%. But Apple, which built the concept of an App Store, built the platform and the payment infrastructure, advertises and delivers the product, is somehow the bad guy for charging for it.
Have you tried asking Walmart how much you would have to pay to sell your product in their store?
I understand. Apple targets the high-end, so their consumers tend to be the well-heeled and hence a truly desirable market. It's like being a goat behind a fence, where all of the best green is on the other side. But, to leave the caprine behind us, what would you pay for access to a customer basis like the iPhones, including billing and distribution?
It's not as if you have to use the App Store. Deliver your apps via your own web page, advertise accordingly, and implement billing, with the attendant security.
Bob is then your uncle.
Or sell to the majority market - 75% of mobile, 87% of desktop. You know it makes sense.
Until you realise that there is minimal protection against wrongdoers, which makes your market skittish. Nor much support in the way of promotion. Still, most studies state that PC and Android are the way to go if you want peak sales.
Just do it.
chatmasta|2 years ago
This just isn't true. You cannot implement the same features in a Web app as you can in a native app.
jerojero|2 years ago
A quick search shows me in the US market iOS makes for 55% and google for 45%. [1]
Also there's a big generational gap too with younger people in the USA vastly preferring the iPhone to android (most likely due to social pressure rather than free choice).
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...