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onion2k on Jan 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extensio...

$100 buy in. Yearly. (Firefox, Edge, Chrome, Opera... No license fees.)

There's a one-off $5 fee to publish things on the Chrome store.[1]

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/publish#pay-the-develo...

shakna on Jan 3, 2017 [–]

You're right.

But that one off fee seems incredibly negligible against Safari's fee, which is 20x larger... And yearly. For smaller marketshare.

Drakim on Jan 3, 2017 | [–]

Yeah, Chrome's fee seems more like a gate-keeping cost to ensure that the store doesn't get spammed or abused, not an attempt of Google by generate revenue.

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