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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I presume the publishers already pay Apple for hosting their app.
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No, they do not. Which is kind of a key point. If you make a free app available, you don't have to pay Apple and they will make it available for free in their app store. FREE.
If you sell the app (which does go through the app store), Apple gets 30%.
Publishers are charging for the app outside the app store by only making it (or parts of it) available to people who pay the publishers. They are thus taking away Apple's fee for hosting/selling/etc. the app.
They could still make the app available for free, or charge for the app in the app store.
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And that's not a problem. The problem is that Apple is saying the publisher can't sell an online subscription, but only tell Apple to sell that online subscription.
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They can sell an online subscription to a website, even an iPad optimized website, with no interference from Apple. They just can't charge for an app that they are selling through Apple's app store without paying for the privilege.
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And from what I read, publishers can't offer the app themselves, outside the appstore. At least, not if they want their customers to keep their warranty on their iphone, ipad or other iapple device that can run apps. So, their only choice is to drop the app and make their site iapple device friendly.
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That's basically correct, if they want to charge for the app. I simply see no reason why Apple shouldn't be paid for selling things through its store.