People should be encouraged to use the stores they want and developers should be free to choose the ones with the best terms for them. To be clear, I don’t have a problem with app stores when their existence is competitive rather than coercive, as long as it’s a fair playing field and there are many sources competing for both users and developers. The garbage that was IE5 was popular too, but not because developers actually liked it. Lets be honest, platform app store popularity has been driven by bundling. The newer ways are just more popular because they are the least burden to developers with an acceptable return compared to previous methods. IMHO this practice would be outlawed if politicians gave a damn about free/healthy markets. On some platforms (ie metro, ios) you don’t even have a right to compete with them. There are rather obvious cases where this is blatantly false and platforms are strongly impeding and even actively blocking us from “doing it the older ways”. Nothing is stopping (indie) developers from doing it the older ways! But you are far more likely to end up singing/performing at weddings and company-retreats just getting by…or just doing it as a sidejob for fun. Everyone is looking at the top 0.1% that is making all the money from consumers. Nothing is stopping (indie) developers from doing it the older ways! The newer ways are just more popular because they are the least burden to developers with an acceptable return compared to previous methods.īeing an app-developer is like being a singer/performer. That model already was mostly replaced by full free versions with adware in the installer or advertisements inside the software.Īppstores just made updating/distribution a lot easier while providing API’s for adds and payments. Followed by a way to accept payment and unlock that software. Or worse, get their software to downloadsites that add adds/malware. Previously indie developers that wanted money had to make a trial/timebombed version of their software and distribute that from their website or unreliable 3rd party hosters and get people to discover that website. They have just made distribution of apps a lot easier for developers. And most niche products are either extremely expensive (to compensate for volume) or gratis (because of ideology from the developer(s)).ĪppStores haven’t hollowed out anything. I don’t know the exact numbers, but I guess the yearly revenue of just Microsoft Office is roughly equivalent to the entire yearly revenue of the entire iOS appstore. It has always been so that most money in software is made by just a few products. Please point me to any chart from the “old world” where there were many indie games in the top grossing chart! Of course the top grossing would not include many indie games. Major bias detected: You are preselecting on the top grossing chart.
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