More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
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More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
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Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#2I find this absolutely insane. Apple is acting as a payment processor that is charging 30%. I thoroughly enjoy Apple's product, but taking 30 percent of in-app purchases seems crazy.
Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#3I find this absolutely insane. Apple is acting as a payment processor that is charging 30%. I thoroughly enjoy Apple's product, but taking 30 percent of in-app purchases seems crazy.
They made the platform. You need to realize that if the platform didn't exist, there wouldn't be all these mobile apps in the first place.
Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#4Their greed is a good thing for the AAPL stockholders though :)
Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#5Well, this invalidates what I thought Amazon should do: remove all purchasing of books from the Kindle app and make it only able to download and read books bought from the website (which it would not link to).
Apple's now saying, if you sell something somewhere else that can be shown in an iOS app, you need to also sell it through Apple for the same price.
I guess when Amazon pulls the iOS app, I can break the DRM on the books I buy from them and read them on Stanza.
Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#6I find this absolutely insane. Apple is acting as a payment processor that is charging 30%. I thoroughly enjoy Apple's product, but taking 30 percent of in-app purchases seems crazy.
I wonder if it's going to extend to content as well. If Amazon is forced to sell books directly through the Kindle app, will Apple get veto power over the books they sell? Will they be able to ban an "Android for Dummies" book?
Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#7I find this absolutely insane. Apple is acting as a payment processor that is charging 30%. I thoroughly enjoy Apple's product, but taking 30 percent of in-app purchases seems crazy.
They made the platform. You need to realize that if the platform didn't exist, there wouldn't be all these mobile apps in the first place.
I am not suggesting they don't take a cut, but when running the financials for the startup I am working on, 30 percent of every item is a huge chunk.
Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#8Anyone want to place bets on when Amazon pulls the iOS app? Seems the only possible retaliation at the moment.
This is absurdly anti-competitive.
Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#9I find this absolutely insane. Apple is acting as a payment processor that is charging 30%. I thoroughly enjoy Apple's product, but taking 30 percent of in-app purchases seems crazy.
They made the platform. You need to realize that if the platform didn't exist, there wouldn't be all these mobile apps in the first place.
And you should realize that things like the Kindle app provide added value to the iOS devices that otherwise wouldn't exist. It's a two way street, and it is not just magical handwaving that lets Apple's actions become justified.
Re: More on Apple's 30% cut of Kindle book sales, etc.
#10Their greed is a good thing for the AAPL stockholders though :)
Until their greed chases potential app developers away from the platform and in to the waiting hands of competing devices.