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So is Android and Blackberry. So why would get Apple get a cut from Amazon and B&N books when Google and RIM does not get any?
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Because they have not asked yet-or don't have the economic power to ask? There are merchandising platforms (the corner store) and MERCHANDISING PLATFORMS( Walmart, Apple).
I've looked at your questions and again , business understanding FAIL. Apple offered a streamlined buying process in which you can buy, return, subscribe, unsubscribe etc using ONE account and remembering ONE password. Your privacy is better protected than with most merchants. You deal with ONE account instead of a dozen different ones. Now to many people, all of that adds value. To you it may not, but tens of millions of people say different. MoreoverApple's plan is that the pthe cprice would not go up, but that Apple's cut would come from the publisher and the bookseller. Instead of a publisher70-bookseller 30 split of the price , the split might be 60/20/20 split with Apple taking 20.
Another possibility might be that Apple charges tthe merchant an upfront fee of $250,000.00 for a storefront type app. That would reflect the actual value of app which, it bears saying again, is a STORE, not "just a computer program". That would not directly affect the price to the comnsumer.
There's a lot of ways that this can be done without significant immpact to the consumer.