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reaperducer on Sept 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to...

People quickly forget that software was distributed on the web long before the App Store existed.

He's talking about when you used to have to pay $50 to $500 for software in a store, but the author was lucky to see $5-$10 of that.

ethbr0 on Sept 11, 2020 | [–]

True, but today is mostly certainly not 1998.

x0x0 on Sept 11, 2020 | | [–]

And now Apple generously gives you up to 85% of $1 to $5!

grumple on Sept 11, 2020 | [–]

What do you mean? Microsoft was certainly seeing more than 5-10$ per product sold.

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