On: Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That ...

[rfinney]

A lot of developers want portability and retaining all revenue from their programs. Could Apple do even better by providing more for developers on these fronts?

[scarface74 → rfinney]

Yes and with portability you get Electron apps...

Developers want to produce cross platform apps that are not a good user experience for users.

There is a well known hierarchy when it comes to Apple: Apple first then users then developers as it should be.

[jamesgeck0 → scarface74]

With portability you also get Qt apps, which generally blend in reasonably well on their respective platforms. Developers can go the extra mile to make apps really blend in on each platform, but the defaults are fine.

[Topgamer7 → rfinney]

Apple is where they are by taking a percent off sales through their store. It would be a fight to claw out their main source of revenue.

[mattferderer → Topgamer7]

Actually it's a small percentage.

"For calendar 2017 the App sztores approximate $11.4 billion in revenue was almost 5% of the company’s projected $237 billion in total revenue and over a third of the $31 billion in forecasted services revenue." - https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/01/06/apples-ap...

Great podcast on this topic - https://www.mergeconflict.fm/113