On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Derek J. Balling 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.
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?
they are saying that if you don't offer the lowest price you offer
anywhere within the application, and give apple 30% of the price, they
won't allow you to have the app on the apple
think about amazon kindle books where amazon gives 70% of the retail price
to the author. Apple is now saying that the remaining 30% must go to
apple, and if amazon doesn't agree they will ban the kindle app entirely
David Lang
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