The demise of native coded apps

Posted by Andy Brice
Dec 9, 2020 at 10:45 PM

Apple makes most of its money on hardware. So it is in their interest to push down the price of software to make the hardware more attractive. It has reached the ridiculous point that some people consider $0.99 ‘expensive’ for an iOS app. The Mac app store also seems in a race to the bottom.

The accepted wisdom amongst software entrepreneurs now is to sell B2B (business) web-based software by subscription and avoid B2C (consumer) software like the plague.

I wonder if Apple dropping its commission on the app store from 30% to 15% for smaller developers was because they are worried about too many developers shifting to web based products (I don’t know, I’m just speculating).

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Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com