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Originally Posted by murraypaul
According to this, Apple has paid out over $1Bn to app store developers, which would equate to a take of ~$430M for Apple. By comparison, in just Q4 of last year, they made $4.32Bn profit on $20.34Bn revenue. Of that $20Bn, ~$1Bn was iTunes store revenue.
This time last year, Apple were describing both the iTunes and app stores as at bit over break-even.
Apple views selling content primarily as a way of increasing hardware sales, the opposite of Amazon, who view selling Kindles primarily as way of increasing eBooks sales. (Hence both Apple and Amazon benefit by having a Kindle app on the iPad.) |
That makes sense that Apple is actually still primarily a hardware provider. By restricting apps to their platform it will make the devices more attractive. But given the percentages they should be better off cutting developers a better deal in exchange for iOS exclusivity.