Going All In on the Mac App Store
December 23, 2020
With the announcement of the App Store Small Business Program, I’ve stopped selling Unbound directly via the web site. I thought it would be worth explaining how I came to that decision.
The original motivation for selling the app directly was simple: Apple took a 30% cut of sales, whereas Paddle, the payment processor & authentication tool I was using to sell directly only took [
not-publicly-disclosed-but-substantially-less-than–30]%. With the drop in Mac App Store fees, that gap has shrunk considerably… to the point that it’s no longer worth keeping Paddle around.
1. Direct sales are a worse experience for customers.
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Goodbye, 2020, we won’t miss you.
Looking back over the last 12 months, it’s clearly been eventful for Apple and that’s even
without taking a global pandemic into account. The company has been busy, especially in the fall product season, but as the year draws to a close, it’s time to cast a gimlet eye over all the decisions the Cupertino-based company has made and as is our annual tradition pick out the ones that will ultimately have the largest impact on its future.
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Apple Launches App ‘Nutrition Labels’ To Inform Users About Their Privacy Practices
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This will serve as a nutrition label detailing an app s privacy practices
It is available across all of Apple s App Stores
Apple’s privacy labels are now live on the App Store and will help users get to know an app’s privacy practices – what kind of data an app collects from them and what it does with the data – before they even download it.
International Business Times previously reported that Apple is going to create some sort of “nutrition label” that would inform users about an app’s privacy practices without having to download it from the App Store. Now, those labels are live and can be accessed via the app’s product page.