Quote:
Originally Posted by stonetools
Er, I'm sorry Apple is doing... nothing? Apple built the devices on which the ebooks are read. Apple marketed these devices-so successfully that they have sold 160M of these devices, creating a huge market for ebooks. These apps that read and more importantly, sell these books are distributed through the Apple's App Store and hosted and updated by the App Store. All that is....nothing? I'm going to be blunt-I just don't think you understand how business works.
|
Guess what, Apple got their cut when they made their profit on the hardware sale just like every other pc maker does when somebody buys a computer.
Also, you should probably check your facts before making incorrect claims, the only thing apple hosts is the kindle app and everything else goes via amazon, so for the sake of 10mb per download apple get a very nice selling point for their hardware, but to be fair they should expect amazon to pay hosting costs for the app.
Quote:
|
Now there are lots of businesses that thrive without Apple's help-like, for example, the business of growing turnips. That's completely irrelevant to the the issue of whether Apple should get a cut of sales made on IOS devices for use on IOS devices I can gaurantee Amazon and B&N are certainly negotiating hard to stay on the IOS platform and would be willing to pay a cut. Hell, GOOGLE is looking for cut (10%) of products sold on the Android platform.
|
The google offering is an optional service rather than being mandatory to everyone whether they need it or not so nice try, but you fail to deflect from what apple is doing.
I am sure Amazon and B&N are talking to Apple too, but it is more likely that they are trying to arrange an exception and to pay for the costs of the app hosting than trying to get a lower fee because the margins simply aren't there and they they will be forced to walk away and throw their weight behind all the tablets and phones from android, blackberry, webos, windows phone etc. making those platforms more appealing than the one that has just forced out 95% of the ebook market.