On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Robert Casto <[email protected]>wrote:
> Real estate agencies do property management and will charge you a finders > fee and then monthly management fee. Usually 50-100% to find the tenant, and > then 10% per month of the rent to manage things. > > Following that model, if Apple is managing the sale, content, and lots of > other things about the relationship between the app developer and the > customer, then it makes sense they should charge for all of this. This > should only be done if the developer wants it though. > I'm totally fine with them deciding the cut they want from the transaction. 30% might be high but it might still benefit both parties. What I find questionable is that they won't allow vendors to increase the price of their merchandise in the Apple store in order to offset these costs (passing them to the buyer). Basically, if you want to sell on the Apple store, you will be making 30% less money than when you sell in other places. The market will tell if it was a wise move by Apple. If in a few weeks, you hear that the 30% figure is being decreased *or* that they are relaxing the pricing restriction, then we will know it was a stupid decision. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
