Apple Releases New Tools for Developers to Create Short App Store Links and QR Codes​

This is where the 30% cut goes!!!!?

Epic's really kicking themselves now - they missed out on their custom QR code.

This is where the 30% cut goes!!!!?

Sure! At least 0.000001% of it, anyway. In any case, developers can use QR codes or not, it’s optional ?‍♂️

Re: the 15 or 30% revenue share, here’s a partial list of what it pays for:

a secure, customer-trusted payment system; app hosting; APIs, libraries, compilers and other development tools; testing, interface libraries; simulators; security features; developer services, including customer support; and cloud services, including 1 petabyte of CloudKit storage.

Those are some of the things Epic thinks Apple should provide for free ?

btw, it’s worth mentioning that more than 80% of all app downloads pay nothing. Not 30%, not 15%—0%. Apple gets $0.00. Not a single penny.

If everyone did what Epic did and Apple App Store revenue went to zero, Apple would replace the ~15 billion they received somewhere else. Like add another $75—the “Epic tax”—onto the price of iPhones. ($100 in a couple years, and it would keep going up every year).

But that way Epic and other devs could get 100% of the revenue instead of only 70 or 85%. Epic might reduce the price of dances and outfits, maybe not.

Seems like an easy way to download apps with AR glasses.

This is where the 30% cut goes!!!!?

I’d love to see a progressive model, where for indie developers that are just getting started Apple takes a reduced cut (say 10%) until a certain paid volume is hit. IE 150 app sales or something. Gives newbs a chance to launch something and try to earn their first year Apple Developer fee back.

Yes I am one of those newbs lol.

Cool way to share your app