Approximately how much does Apple/Google pay developers for apps?

I've been trying to search for an answer, and maybe I'm not typing in the right combination of words, but I'm curious to know how much the developers of apps such as Angry Birds get paid from the corporations that they submit it to?|||You have the wrong idea going here. If you send an app to an internet store of some kind, the people over the store do NOT own it. They are only selling it for you.



I would tell you specifics if I was an Apple App developer, but their business model makes it so that the Apple App Store is more of a brokerage firm. Developers put their apps up, and then they pay some kind of broker fee for every time the app is sold. The fee they charge is never significant enough to put a dent in the price of something. How much a developer makes is entirely dependent on how popular their app is.



Google likely does the same.



Edit: At $0.99 on angry birds and over four million downloads, you can assume that the people that created it have made at least over 3.5 million dollars.|||Oh.. Their free apps are usually covered with iAd advertisements, which still make Apple money. Those advertisements usually show themselves at loading screens.

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|||None. Developers PAY Apple/Google to join the developer's program, and Apple/Google takes a piece of every sale through the market.





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Kasey C, PC guru since Apple II days


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