On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:03, "Derek J. Balling" <[email protected]> wrote:
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. I don't even see it as a finders fee, I think it's more like 30% of sales go to the "house". They have the infrastructure set up to allow X application to be downloaded by Y million people so they should get a cut. 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?
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