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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
In what way is Apple wanting to get paid for selling apps through its app store "greed?" Answer: it isn't. They want a mutually agreeable deal over goods and services. That's business.
The fact that newspapers: (1) want to charge their customers for their products; but (2) don't want to pay Apple for its services; does look a lot like greed, but not on the part of Apple.
Is your worldview seriously one in which Apple is required to offer publishers free apps on its platform, even when those publishers are essentially "cheating" Apple by collecting money for the app outside the app store?
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Ah, that's Apple's reality distortion field in action. Let's see: people have a newspaper subscription, may have done so for years. They pay for content and delivery of a paper copy to their doors in the morning. As an added bonus the publisher has created an app that gives its subscribers access to the newspaper content via the Ipad. Usually the publisher could simply offer the program for download on his own own home page, the subscriber could simply download it to his device and install it. Where is Apple's contribution? After all, Apple made a legitimate profit by selling the Ipad itself. Yet Apple doesn't allow apps from other sources to be installed on the Ipad and forces the publisher to distribute the apps via Apple's app store. For this minuscule and unnecessary service Apple suddenly feels entitled to receive a substantial share of the newspaper subscription price. Oh, I almost forgot, as an added bonus for the customer the content has to comply with Apple's puritan and prudish content guidelines. That's added value we can believe in.