{"id":3115,"date":"2011-02-24T16:32:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T21:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2011-02-24T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T21:35:54","slug":"app-store-revenue-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/app-store-revenue-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Revenue Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/02\/24\/manton-30\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/02\/24\/manton-30\"><p>The iTunes Store was and remains a business in its own right. Its mission isn&rsquo;t selling music, or movies, or TV shows, or apps, but building an end-to-end system, a platform that allows people to easily buy <em>anything<\/em> digital. If you think the App Store shouldn&rsquo;t be &ldquo;a huge revenue stream&rdquo; then you&rsquo;re not seeing things the way Apple does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, CFO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/apple_app_store_runs_just_above_break_even\/\">Peter Oppenheimer responded<\/a> to criticism of the iOS subscription policy by saying that Apple runs the store &ldquo;just a little over breakeven.&rdquo;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: The iTunes Store was and remains a business in its own right. Its mission isn&rsquo;t selling music, or movies, or TV shows, or apps, but building an end-to-end system, a platform that allows people to easily buy anything digital. If you think the App Store shouldn&rsquo;t be &ldquo;a huge revenue stream&rdquo; then you&rsquo;re [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","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=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}