@gruber Implied but left unsaid in your iPad Pro piece: just like the iPad, macOS offers no features for its pro machines unavailable to its regular, consumer machines. Anything you can do on a MacBook Pro, you can do on a MacBook Air—just not as quickly. In that way, your analysis of the iPad Pro being intentionally designed to just be nicer rings true.
I’m still on Viticci’s side. You should be able to export a Final Cut Pro movie in the background. Or keep an ssh session open. Or…
@stroughtonsmith @viticci #3 assumes you still qualify for the Small Business Program pricing. The terms still seem to say Apple bases your qualifications on <$1M in App Store revenue, so I guess you automatically qualify if you stop doing IAP?
For me, there's also no clarity on whether apps that don't exist yet get to use the "current" terms or whether they have to be on the new terms.
@stroughtonsmith @viticci Doing some additional calculations:
1. If you're never going to charge for your app, you stay on the existing terms. Costs you nothing.
2. If you get <1,000,000 downloads, the new terms are always cheaper for you, whether you use IAP or external. Like a new Small Business Program.
3. At 2,000,000 downloads, you need to earn $25M+/year for the new terms to be a better deal. If you get 3,000,000 yearly downloads, you need to earn $45M+ for the new terms to be better.
