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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well, in my analogy
APP Store= Mall
B&N Nook=store
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The problem is that your analogy is fundamentally flawed. The reason the mall gets a cut of every sale made in the mall is because the mall is involved in every sale made in the mall. This continuous involvement is what justifies its continuous participation in sales revenue.
Continuous involvement generates continuous revenue.
That's not the case with the current generation of eBook applications and the App store. It's a one-time transaction, not continuous involvement.
Apple could shut down the App store completely and the current Kindle and Nook apps would still function in exactly the same fashion. No fuss, no mess, just opening up a browser and selling on the web.
However, if a mall shuts down, every store in that mall shuts down with it. That's continuous involvement.
What I think you're missing is that people aren't so much opposed to Apple getting a cut of purchases made through their infrastructure, as that they're trying to force people to use their infrastructure just so they can get a cut.
They're saying "you can keep doing business but you have to go through us and hand over a cut to do it."
I leave any possible parallels to that business model up to the reader.