Just one thing more....
John Gruber has published his analysis of the new Apple subscription policy, and he said things much better than I . Of course the anti Apple folks will dismiss him as an Apple fan boy , but then you have to actually debunk his arguments step by step to convince the objective bystander. Good luck with that.
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Read the whole thing:
http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/dirty_percent
Money quote:
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iOS isn’t and never was an open computer system. It’s a closed, controlled console system — more akin to Playstation or Wii or Xbox than to Mac OS X or Windows. It is, in Apple’s view, a privilege to have a native iOS app.
This is what galls some: Apple is doing this because they can, and no other company is in a position to do it. This is not a fear that in-app subscriptions will fail because Apple’s 30 percent slice is too high, but rather that in-app subscriptions will succeed despite Apple’s (in their minds) egregious profiteering. I.e. that charging what the market will bear is somehow unscrupulous. To the charge that Apple Inc. is a for-profit corporation run by staunch capitalists, I say, “Duh”.
If it works, Apple’s 30-percent take of in-app subscriptions will prove as objectionable in the long run as the App Store itself: not very.
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