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Why is anyone still developing for these stagnant walled gardens?
"anyone" is 2 groups:
- indies who mostly don't care about the 15%
- the huge corpos (Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, game studios) who want the 30% to be 0%. They're the only ones who cares about these disputes. Yawn.
Spotify hasn’t allowed in ap purchases since 2013, Netflix hasn’t either for years. Amazon cut some type of deal with Apple where Amazon Prime Movies can be purchased in app via your Amazon account.
Correct, but that means higher friction to pay/subscribe, which means lost conversions (customers) and higher cost of acquisition (of new customers). So they care intensely about bringing it down to 0% or allowing free linking out to the web.
Most users don’t see it that way.
Customers are willing to pay for software
Not really, I'll say the secret out loud on HN, build for B2B instead and you'll be where the money is.
Unless you are building a gambling game app, it's not worth it to deal with the duopoly, I've been there.
Can't wait for the entire economy to be B2B only because "that's where the money is".
That's clearly what's happening at the moment, the middle class gets squeezed more and more since covid and the B2C business became a hard game of low margins with very high numbers which you can only achieve with a very large company.
why people keep buying android or google devices?
Why don't they buy alternate devices without android or google?