Chew on this ladies and gentlemen. The real problem isn't that Apple is going to eat 30% of sales on their own platform. The real problem is that Apple's contract forbids you from charging *less* for the same product anywhere else, and forces you to offer content for sale on their platform if it is for sale anywhere else. For most app developers who use multiple platforms (that would be just about all of them) this means you either instantly lose 30% (and probably your profit margin) on sales in the iOS family, or you pass that 30% tax on to your customers everywhere.
Apple's position is untenable; they've reached well beyond manipulating their own little ecosystem and are now manipulating entire markets with the threat of being locked out from iOS. This is clearly anti-competitive behavior; Apple's own content services such as iBooks and iTunes will not be subject to this tax, while content services like Kindle, Nook, Pandora, Rhapsody, and dozens of others will be. Apple is leveraging their control of the distribution channel to give themselves an unfair competitive advantage. -- Benjamin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
