Apple Putting The Squeeze On iPhone Developers

Post by gabrielleydon » Tue, Mar 24, 2009, 9:21 PM UTC

Post by cubicle67 » Tue, Mar 24, 2009, 11:01 PM UTC

Post by icey » Tue, Mar 24, 2009, 11:06 PM UTC

anatoli wrote: post #4

cubicle67 wrote: post #3

This is absolute BS; nothing more than a nasty rumour. Please don't post this crap here.

Actually it's right there in the contract... although I'm no legal professional, so I could be misunderstanding it.

Post by icey » Tue, Mar 24, 2009, 11:24 PM UTC

gcheong wrote: post #6

icey wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you link or excerpt?

Section 6.3 of the contract includes this text: “In the event that Apple refunds any such price to an end-user, You shall reimburse, or grant Apple a credit for, an amount equal to the price for that Licensed Application. Apple will have the right to retain its commission on the sale of that Licensed Application, notwithstanding the refund of the price to the end-user.”

Post by gcheong » Tue, Mar 24, 2009, 11:31 PM UTC

icey wrote: post #7

gcheong wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Section 6.3 of the contract includes this text: “In the event that Apple refunds any such price to an end-user, You shall reimburse, or grant Apple a credit for, an amount equal to the price for that Licensed Application. Apple will have the right to retain its commission on the sale of that Licensed Application, notwithstanding the refund of the price to the end-user.”

Retaining the right to keep their commission is not remotely the same thing as forcing developers to pay back Apple 100% of the sale amount, including paying back Apple's commission amount. My guess is that they are including this in their contracts to allow for punitive actions in cases of things like the $999 "I am Rich app". Of course, there's still the chance that I'm completely wrong and Apple is intentionally t…