The Exponent podcast is back! And there’s a lot of news regarding pressure to change existing App Store pricing models.
it seems incredibly worrisome to me anytime any company predicates its growth story on rent-seeking: it’s not that the growth isn’t real, but rather that the pursuit is corrosive on whatever it was that made the company great in the first place. That is a particularly large concern for Apple: the company has always succeeded by being the best; how does the company maintain that edge when its executives are more concerned with harvesting profits from other companies’ innovations?
via Stratechery and Exponent
Plus, after shipping Fortnite outside of the Google Play Store, Epic Games is moving in on Steam with a new game store and taking a smaller cut of sales.
Developers receive 88% of revenue. There are no tiers or thresholds. Epic takes 12%. And if you’re using Unreal Engine, Epic will cover the 5% engine royalty for sales on the Epic Games store, out of Epic’s 12%.
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