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Originally Posted by stonetools
WEll, what is the real value of an app that serves as a storefront to 160 million IOS device owners. I have a feeling its WAAAAAAY over $99, right? One suggestion I have seen would be to charge like $250,000 for such an app. Would that make you happier? Amazon may like that , but I can see a small scale merchant preferring a percentage sale approach.
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Once again you choose to ignore the value that these apps also currently provide to apple making their ios products more appealing, but then I guess that isn't what you are being paid to consider.
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Right, which is why I feel that Apple and the booksellers will come to an arrangement that both can live with . Apple WANTS the book sellers on their platform-they just want a cut. For other people on this site, there seems to be a near religious beleif that Apple isn't entitled to a cut, because Amazon etc. is virtually doing Apple a favor by putting apps on IOS devices. Go figure.
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I think you are mistaken about this, in an ideal world for them, apple want to be the only content provider on their devices and now think they are in a strong enough position to force through this change in some areas.
You are really reaching now, people have simple been trying to point out to you that it is not a one way relationship as you seem to be trying to make it out to be with all these evil companies stealing poor defenceless little apple's profits with their evil apps when the reality is that these companies benefit from being on ios devices and the ios devices also benefit from having these apps on them and that apple's cut has already come from hardware sales and the other apps sales brought to ios devices by the presence of these service-related apps.