Apple Earned Over $100 Million From Fortnite

Gets out Rough Estimate Calculator:

Apple's 100m = 30/100 = 100m/333m.

333m x 70/100 = 233m.

So if Apple made over $100m from Fortnite on iOS, Epic made over $233m from having their game on iOS.


(Advice to future self: Avoid letting your children anywhere near Free-to-Play money/fire pits.)

Totally justified. It's very expensive for Apple for iOS fortnite players to launch the fortnite app, log in to their fortnite account, connect to EPIC's servers, and download virtual content produced by EPIC'S employees that is hosted and distributed by EPIC. After all, Apple has to process the payments for all that digital content purchased from some other company and hosted by someone else's property (due to self self-inposed rules which has apparently netted them a cool $100 million).

Absolutely. Apple built a platform costing how many $$$. For a paltry $99 and blood, sweat and tears, you can publish an app, with a complete management and distribution platform while giving access to the app to over 1 billion devices.

Seems like a fair deal.

Hope Apples store tax will be reduced or removed. Apples monopoly needs to end.

Go yell at every other store making money. And target. And Walmart. And grocery stores. And gas stations. And

Totally justified. It's very expensive for Apple for iOS fortnite players to launch the fortnite app, log in to their fortnite account, connect to EPIC's servers, and download virtual content produced by EPIC'S employees that is hosted and distributed by EPIC. After all, Apple has to process the payments for all that digital content purchased from some other company and hosted by someone else's property (due to self self-inposed rules which has apparently netted them a cool $100 million).

Damn.

Absolutely. Apple built a platform costing how many $$$. For a paltry $99 and blood, sweat and tears, you can publish an app, with a complete management and distribution platform while giving access to the app to over 1 billion devices.

Seems like a fair deal.

It’s like people ignore that. Apple isn’t a charity.

Totally justified. It's very expensive for Apple for iOS fortnite players to launch the fortnite app, log in to their fortnite account, connect to EPIC's servers, and download virtual content produced by EPIC'S employees that is hosted and distributed by EPIC. After all, Apple has to process the payments for all that digital content purchased from some other company and hosted by someone else's property (due to self self-inposed rules which has apparently netted them a cool $100 million).

One thing that struck me about switching to MacOS/iOS dev was the INCREDIBLE breadth and depth of framework apis and developer tools built out, then documented and demonstrated via super thorough WWDC training materials and courses.

And these apis (and the Swift language) are undergoing constant rapid development (with VERY little abandonment of frameworks or backwards compatibility, indeed actually a huge effort put in toward future compatibility).

And you can see SO much of this effort is done purely for the public API access. They would spend many tens of thousands fewer dev-hours if they were only doing it for the private apis and apps.

And this isn’t even to mention their dedication to accessibility (across so many stripes) that they practically hand you for free and regularly reinforce from the framework architectures right up to their developer training materials.

It is absolutely true to say that Apple develops a LARGE part of nearly every app on their store. And without those hundreds of thousands of Apple developer hours, the app-makers themselves would be on the hook for a stupidly massive undertaking to get anywhere NEAR the functionality they have.