<story><title>Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/apple-considered-taking-40-cut-from-subscriptions-emails-show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thephyber</author><text>Yes, but it&amp;#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; During a hearing before the House antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook testified that “we apply the rules to all developers evenly” when it comes to the App Store. But documents revealed by the subcommittee’s investigation show Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered Amazon a unique deal in 2016: Apple would only take a 15 percent fee on subscriptions that signed up through the app, compared to the standard 30 percent that most developers must hand over.[1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;21348108&amp;#x2F;apple-amazon-prime-video-app-store-special-treatment-fee-subscriptions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;21348108&amp;#x2F;apple-amazon-pri...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>CubsFan1060</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this pretty average business?  Amazon (and the others) are bringing more business and get a discount.&lt;p&gt;AWS does this.  So does monoprice (volume pricing).  My local landscaping place does this (contractors buying more tons of rock get a better price).  Home depot has &amp;quot;contractor pricing&amp;quot; when you buy multiples of things.</text></item><item><author>taylorhou</author><text>interesting how bigger players are able to negotiate discounts&amp;#x2F;preference when arguably they are more suited to not need the discount - whereas 15% could be the difference between bankruptcy and breakeven or ramen profitability for a small startup&amp;#x2F;business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sah2ed</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Yes, but it&amp;#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You have a unfortunate typo in your first sentence (since your excerpted text mentions the correct person: Tim Cook).</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/apple-considered-taking-40-cut-from-subscriptions-emails-show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thephyber</author><text>Yes, but it&amp;#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; During a hearing before the House antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook testified that “we apply the rules to all developers evenly” when it comes to the App Store. But documents revealed by the subcommittee’s investigation show Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered Amazon a unique deal in 2016: Apple would only take a 15 percent fee on subscriptions that signed up through the app, compared to the standard 30 percent that most developers must hand over.[1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;21348108&amp;#x2F;apple-amazon-prime-video-app-store-special-treatment-fee-subscriptions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;21348108&amp;#x2F;apple-amazon-pri...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>CubsFan1060</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this pretty average business?  Amazon (and the others) are bringing more business and get a discount.&lt;p&gt;AWS does this.  So does monoprice (volume pricing).  My local landscaping place does this (contractors buying more tons of rock get a better price).  Home depot has &amp;quot;contractor pricing&amp;quot; when you buy multiples of things.</text></item><item><author>taylorhou</author><text>interesting how bigger players are able to negotiate discounts&amp;#x2F;preference when arguably they are more suited to not need the discount - whereas 15% could be the difference between bankruptcy and breakeven or ramen profitability for a small startup&amp;#x2F;business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Steve Jobs passed away nine years ago.</text></comment>