thats what apple forces and imposes on any developer that uses the app store, which is most of them since on ios alt stores are only a thing on eu and japan afaik
That’s what Apple charges devs in their “ecosystem” correct?
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
REDACTED@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
Depends if you’re a big developer or some indie one. Big developers commonly don’t pay fees (Uber, etc.). Smaller ones pay 15% up to 1 million downloads, then it’s 30%.
That being said, this is on top of the VAT, not part of it. Still charging 30% in 2026 feels criminal and greedy. This applies to nearly all big corporations, including Valve Corporation. It made more sense to take 30% cut when 100Gb of HDD costed thousand dollars, internet was metered in megabytes and the whole infrastructure was just not there yet, but this “industry standart” tax never changed even tho for them distributing apps has become far, far cheaper than it used to.