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06-01-2017, 10:06 PM
Apple has paid out $70 billion to developers
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When Steve Jobs introduced Apple's App Store back in 2008, he introduced the developer-friendly platform with ... a free backgammon game.*
Jobs called the system "pretty cool." Maybe **t the hardest sell from a man famous for talking about how Apple products would change the world.
SEE ALSO: Why I refuse to delete old, unused apps from my iPhone (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/i-refuse-to-delete-unused-iphone-apps/)
What he did stress, however, was the business side of the App Store. Developers would keep 70 percent of the revenue earned through their apps (Apple got the rest), with ** fees attached. Free apps wouldn't cost their developers anything.
Nine years later, Apple is boasting about just how lucrative that deal ended up being. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/01/apple-developers-40-billion-dollars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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When Steve Jobs introduced Apple's App Store back in 2008, he introduced the developer-friendly platform with ... a free backgammon game.*
Jobs called the system "pretty cool." Maybe **t the hardest sell from a man famous for talking about how Apple products would change the world.
SEE ALSO: Why I refuse to delete old, unused apps from my iPhone (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/i-refuse-to-delete-unused-iphone-apps/)
What he did stress, however, was the business side of the App Store. Developers would keep 70 percent of the revenue earned through their apps (Apple got the rest), with ** fees attached. Free apps wouldn't cost their developers anything.
Nine years later, Apple is boasting about just how lucrative that deal ended up being. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/01/apple-developers-40-billion-dollars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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