Australian IOS price tiers

General (non-technical) Off-Topic
#1

What the hell!! Just added a new app id to iTunes connect and when I clicked the price tier1 thing, i noticed that the Australian market only gives 63c to the developer! What the hell!!! Where do they get off doing crap like this! It’s always been 70% to the developer! So pissed at Apple right now, more interested in squeezing the extra pennies out of the system than in supporting developers!

As our team live in australia, most of our initial word of mouth/Facebook friends etc, marketing is gonna be here, so this is a real pain in the arse for us especially, but for those of you located elsewhere, just so you know, Australia is very IOS, so you may have noticed that a lot of your sales come from here, which means that this is a kick in the teeth to you too.

Hopefully Corona’s marketing tools will help us compensate for this by getting the word out a little further afield, but this is still really annoying.

Is there nothing we as developers can do to protect ourselves from this kind of ‘we’re-bigger-than-you-so-we-can-do-what-we-want’ action?

If someone could explain the reason for the drop, I’d appreciate it, other than that, rant over. [import]uid: 68278 topic_id: 27480 reply_id: 327480[/import]

#2

I think its something to do with this:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/07/apples-new-australian-app-store-pricing-structure-fully-explained/ [import]uid: 17969 topic_id: 27480 reply_id: 111654[/import]

#3

Nah man, that was ages ago.
At the moment, tier1 is 99c, it’s been that way for a while(when the aussie dollar strengthened)
but what I’m talking about is not shown there, the developer’s cut

usa - 99c - dev cut = 70c
canada - 99c - dev cut = 70c
australia - 99c - dev cut = 63c

where do they get off??

I’ve already had a good google, and can’t find any mention of it [import]uid: 68278 topic_id: 27480 reply_id: 111663[/import]

#4

when was the last time you saw that you got .70 in Australia then? because in the comment field of the link I sent one guys said he then got 0.63 under the new changes. [import]uid: 17969 topic_id: 27480 reply_id: 111664[/import]

#5

Ah yeah, I see it, guess it’s been like this since the change to 99c like you said.

So annoyed. [import]uid: 68278 topic_id: 27480 reply_id: 111758[/import]

#6

lol and to think i just had to pay $100 to get a solicitor to notorise my identity for my Apple developer account. Good thing Apple is helping Devs :smiley: [import]uid: 75844 topic_id: 27480 reply_id: 112400[/import]