On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Imagine if Microsoft charged a 30% tax on all products people bought while > using Windows. Would you as a consumer continue using Windows? Forcing > developers to cater to them?
It's not quite the same thing as a 30% tax. It's more like a 30% "finders fee", because it's the software vendor who has the arrangement with Apple, not the consumer. But I'm not sure what the big deal is. Apple is providing an entire distribution channel, a deployment and upgrade methodology, etc., etc., why *shouldn't* they get a chunk of change for providing that, so that software developers don't have to reinvent that wheel? D
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