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Originally Posted by stonetools
Amazon and B&N are in the business of making money. They will do what they have to to remain on an immensely successful merchandising platform. If that means paying a cut to Apple, disappointing the vast numbers of folks out there who think Apple is wrong for asking for a cut, well that's what they will do.
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All three of them are in business to make money, and theres's nothing wrong with that.
However, if Apple makes it impossible for Amazon and B&N to make money on iOS devices they will pull their apps. They can't afford not to.
Now since Apple is in business to make money, I can understand that they may want to charge Amazon and B&N for the service of hosting their apps. However, that should be a per app (or download) fee, not a percentage of everything sold through the app. That's grossly disproportionate.
Remember, Apple makes a profit on hardware, so every time someone buys an iOS device to use non-Apple content, Apple makes money.
I also disagree with your mall analogy from another post.
Yes the mall takes a cut of sales from all the stores in the mall: but they don't ask for a cut of every purchase made on a device purchased in the mall.
It's like my cell phone: Verizon doesn't get a cut of everything I buy from my phone, they just get a cut of everything I buy through them. Apple wants to move from the latter to the former, and that's just not something that can work.
The only way this makes sense is if it's an attempt to drive all other content resellers off the iOS platform. It's their right, and it's not evil, but I don't think it's a good idea either.
I'm just glad my next phone upgrade won't be until well after this shakes out: because this may well put Apple off the list.