> It's interesting that few people don't understand the difference between permission to distribute versus actual distribution.
Not sure what distinction you're trying to draw here but in order for Apple to take their 30% cut, someone has to download the app, at which point Apple have de facto distributed it to someone.
> If Apple was doing any distribution for you at all, you wouldn't need to pay Facebook and Google for distribution.
This makes very little sense to me. Are you saying that if I pay Apple to distribute my app on the App Store then they should also distribute it on every app store? And that if they aren't then they're somehow failing me?
> Note how this was different in the early days, where simply being on the app store would get downloads. That has not been true for 7-8 years now.
The App Store is a shit-show in terms of discoverability, this is true. I'm not even sure what they can do to improve things at this stage.
Not sure what distinction you're trying to draw here but in order for Apple to take their 30% cut, someone has to download the app, at which point Apple have de facto distributed it to someone.
> If Apple was doing any distribution for you at all, you wouldn't need to pay Facebook and Google for distribution.
This makes very little sense to me. Are you saying that if I pay Apple to distribute my app on the App Store then they should also distribute it on every app store? And that if they aren't then they're somehow failing me?
> Note how this was different in the early days, where simply being on the app store would get downloads. That has not been true for 7-8 years now.
The App Store is a shit-show in terms of discoverability, this is true. I'm not even sure what they can do to improve things at this stage.