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easily solved: Buy this book for 10$ on amazon.com Buy this book for 13$ with your itunes account* *explanation
I wonder what creative solution Apple will come up with. Bah, it won't be creative, it'll be:
* An app will not charge consumers more to purchase content in-app then they would in other locations.
I think it will be interesting to see how this dispute will end. In any case the user will loose, take Amazon for example, I see two possibilities: 1. Amazon will leave App Store. We loose because we can not use our iPads and iPhones to access Kindle books. 2. Amazon will comply with the Apple demand and they will cut 30% for Apple ... hmmm ... Basically they will be forced to rise the price of their books to allow f…
Apple is just trying to create a new revenue stream early on as iPad sales increase and the tablet market heats up; smart move. It'll take a big ereader player like Amazon to battle them, and if ereader content creates a price hike war due to Apple's insistence on 30% cuts, then negative public sentiment towards pricing or not having access to ebook material that has already been purchased on one platform will hopefully create a retraction in Apple's policy. But then again, the airlines never got rid the baggage fee, and even with negative sentiment we all still pay them.
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Or possibility number 4: Amazon removes any mention of purchasing books from the app. The way I read the statement from Apple, they are not saying that if developers offer purchasing outside the app, then they must offer in-app purchasing. They are saying that if an app offers purchasing options, those have to go through the in-app purchasing model. It's still pretty crappy, but basically, all Amazon would have to do…
Think about this from Apple point of view, the Kindle app is free, uses Apple infrastructure, and Apple get nothing out of it, besides the increased usefulness of their devices (which isn't tiny). I can understand them wanting to get something for this. I am not saying that this is what they believe, because I still think it is crazy.
Yeah, that's right. Even fucking Microsoft is more level-headed and market friendly than Apple.
I think we were all afraid of some move like this. Nobody cares about Sony's ebooks. Everybody (me included) cares about Kindle. I can sort of understand where Apple is coming from in this. They provide an ecosystem and apps live within their ecosystem. That being said, I can't see Amazon or any other big player rolling over on a margin of 30%. This is the problem with one fixed margin: it works well for apps and mus…
I don't buy it, though.
My xbox is just a toy, in essence. It's an entertainment device that I could discard with little loss. A general computing device, which is what I think both smartphones and tablets are, however, are not game consoles. They are not merely entertaining frills. This sort of "landholder" gatekeeper model cannot and will not fly.
I think we were all afraid of some move like this. Nobody cares about Sony's ebooks. Everybody (me included) cares about Kindle. I can sort of understand where Apple is coming from in this. They provide an ecosystem and apps live within their ecosystem. That being said, I can't see Amazon or any other big player rolling over on a margin of 30%. This is the problem with one fixed margin: it works well for apps and mus…
When debating the openness of platforms, an example oft mentioned is consoles: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony each own their respective console market, taking a tithe from every transaction occurring on the device. Such an example has frequently been used to justify various of Apple's actions. I don't buy it, though. My xbox is just a toy, in essence. It's an entertainment device that I could discard with little loss.…
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony each own their respective
console market, taking a tithe from every transaction occurring
on the device
The right comparison should really be versus Microsoft and Windows.
As much as I hated Microsoft's iron hand over the years, seeing Apple in action makes Microsoft look like saints interested in interoperability, openness and innovation for the greater good; the fuck? :-)
I can make no possible reading of the App Store guidelines that results in this policy - it's clearly new. I guess if Google can't make the Android App Store attractive to developers, Apple sure can. Surely, this cannot be "official" policy, or if it is, it can't be one that lasts more than a couple of weeks. It's not one of those geek-annoying App restrictions that 99% of the iOS target market wouldn't care about ev…
It's the difference between markup and margin. If you want to pay someone x margin, you have to markup your product by (1/1-x)
From a user, with an iTunes account, this is a big win for me. I don't particularly like sharing my bank details with all and sundry.
It's a little steep for me.