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kacir · 05-11-2011, 04:52 PM

I think it is perfectly OK from Apple to ask for 30% of anything you sell through them.
What is not OK, is to force you to sell through their store if you have an app.
What is a downright GANGSTERous move is changing rules dramatically after your "business partners" invested heavily in your platform.

When I watched the presentation that Steve Jobs gave when introducing iPad2, I was deeply disturbed when he was bragging how many users with CreditCards were registered in his app and iTunes stores and how big an asset those CC wielding users were.

I am *not*going to become one of those users.

05-11-2011, 04:52 PM	#23
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,463 Karma: 10684861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	I think it is perfectly OK from Apple to ask for 30% of anything you sell through them. What is not OK, is to force you to sell through their store if you have an app. What is a downright GANGSTERous move is changing rules dramatically after your "business partners" invested heavily in your platform. When I watched the presentation that Steve Jobs gave when introducing iPad2, I was deeply disturbed when he was bragging how many users with CreditCards were registered in his app and iTunes stores and how big an asset those CC wielding users were. I am notgoing to become one of those users.