And allowing yourselft to become a willing participant in sharecropping
encourages the business model to spread. My biggest fear is that this
model will become the norm for application development and that we'll
all have just 2 choices: sharecrop or switch professions.
On 4/18/2010 11:24 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
I think this is getting to the crux of the problem.
iPhone/iPad development is sharecropping. There's money to be made in
sharecropping, but you should never invest a lot as the rug can be
pulled out from under your feet at any time.
On Apr 18, 3:36 am, Jess Holle<[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/17/2010 8:39 AM, Karsten Silz wrote:> Second one: Only Apple makes money
selling apps, not developers. Do I
really need to wave stories like this iPhone game company making $1
million monthly in front of you
Sure, there's money to be made on the iPhone/iPad platform as a
developer -- as long as Apple likes their 30% cut more than they dislike
the substance/image of you or your application. If they feel you might
be in any way a competitor to them or a partner, you might cause
controversy, or they just don't like you that day they can reject your
application before it gets to market or any time thereafter -- after
you've fully developed it. You make money only as long as it pleases Apple.
Apple has every legal right to do this, but this application development
model is really sick -- it treats developers as sharecroppers and should
be shunned.
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