Well Heck I Think I'm already earning more than $1m already so bad luck to me . . . .
I suppose this is good news the Big Secretive Company, and Maybe Maybe the Ugly G will follow suit (and become the Pretty G again).
I just finished reading a really interesting book "The One Device" : Brian Merchant : ISBN 9780552173742. A history of the iPHONE, and, how its made where the materials come from and Whole lot more. See if you can find it. My edition was published by Corgi.
Anyway, Merchant relates that in around 2007 when the iPhone was put on the market, the development team pressed for the thing to be open to outside developer. Jobs refused and held out for about a year before the App Store appeared and, even at that time, a limited access platform appeared for third party developers. The third party people (us lot) were also clamoring for access.
I wonder if, finally, has Apple really succummed to noise from developers about their extortionist commission level?
The article says :
"It follows widespread criticism by developers of the fees Apple charges, and coincides with anti-trust scrutiny."
The anti-trust thing has been going for along time and they have the cash to fight it for a long time too.
Or, alternatively, they have just realised that they are in the top three richest, and THE biggest CASH reserve holder globally.
There, again, maybe the rate of third party additions to the App Store might just have shrunk and they want to push it up?
Thanks for the heads up
@andymc . . . .