{"id":15626,"date":"2016-08-20T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15626"},"modified":"2016-08-20T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T14:59:16","slug":"mac-app-store-developer-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/20\/mac-app-store-developer-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac App Store Developer Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/devmate.com\/mac-dev-survey\">DevMate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/devmate.com\/mac-dev-survey\"><p>Most developers we asked are gods with multiple arms: they manage to sell their apps both on the Mac App Store and outside of it. About a third were brave enough to only sell outside, while the smallest part have chosen the MAS as their only marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Unexpectedly, for those who sell both on the MAS and outside, revenue parts coming from the two channels are practically identical, which means you don&rsquo;t actually make more money on the MAS.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>About a third of the devs we asked run their own business. Funny enough (not really), more than 20% of them have tried MAS, but left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2016\/08\/mac-app-store-developer-survey.html\">Manton Reece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2016\/08\/mac-app-store-developer-survey.html\">\n<p>While sandboxing does show up on the complaint list, it&rsquo;s ranked low as a reason to not use the Mac App Store, even though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2012\/02\/sandboxing_and_clipstart.html\">it was why<\/a> I pulled my app Clipstart from the Mac App Store 4 years ago. And not much has changed since I wrote about Sketch and other apps leaving the Mac App Store <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2015\/12\/too-late-to-save-the-mas.html\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-08-20): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fehnman\/status\/767003447237500928\">Marcus Fehn<\/a> is critical of the survey. These sorts of surveys always have sampling issues, so I wouldn&rsquo;t take the numbers too seriously. But I do think it&rsquo;s interesting as a rough snapshot of what the community thinks, particularly the ranking of the different pain points. I would have liked to see additional choices, though, e.g. the unreliability of iTunes Connect and the Mac App Store app.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DevMate: Most developers we asked are gods with multiple arms: they manage to sell their apps both on the Mac App Store and outside of it. About a third were brave enough to only sell outside, while the smallest part have chosen the MAS as their only marketplace. [&#8230;] Unexpectedly, for those who sell both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,653,30,39,53],"class_list":["post-15626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-itunes-connect","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-sandboxing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15633,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626\/revisions\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}