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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
True, to an extend. But what if I have this free app I want to give to my customers? I'm not allowed to by Apple. Because these customers are paying customers, to me. Where is my freedom then? I'm not allowed to use my own servers to serve the app.
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Correct. You could create an html 5 web app and control your own destiny. But you can no more just go and put your app on Apple's store shelf than you could waltz into a Wal-Mart and set up a booth to sell your product.
For LOTS of folks, that will be a deal breaker. They hope like hades that Android will take off and they can work without Apple's restriction.
On the other hand, Apple has 130 million credit card backed accounts and a customer base that actually pays for content at a rate that is VERY attractive. Just look at what happened when Apple put out it's App Store for the Mac. Pixelmator garnered HUGE sales of it's product...even priced a lot lower than it had been before.
There is a reason folks want to be sold by Wal-Mart, even though Wal-Mart drives the hardest bargains. They also have the most customers.
Apple has to continually put out a better product, a better experience, and market it better to create the "Apple Market" that is so attractive for businesses to want to be a part of. Should Apple falter or the competition surpass it - then Apple's system will fail.
Until then, you have to give Apple it's cut if you want to sell product in it's store.
Lee