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Originally Posted by madmaxmedia
I agree 100% with your last point, especially since Apple doesn't seem to be very forthcoming about certain app rejections. On a big picture level I understand the idea of having an application approval process (depending on your target market), but the devil is in the details.
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If I were developing for the platform, I'd want such ground rules clearly spelled out. The last thing I would want would be to invest significant time and effort in developing an application that could only be sold through one outlet, and then see it rejected by that outlet.
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OTOH I think there are many happy App Store developers, the 70/30 cut seems pretty reasonable.
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Yes, the cut is reasonable. And it's a hot market, so developers have good potential revenues if the develop a decent product.
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I actually do the same thing, so I've never lost an app (though I've probably come close.) And actually, 3 stores is still a lot less than the many different avenues to buy Palm software. I personally managed fine, but I can tell you instantly what system would work better for say my wife.
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And a lot of other people. It's a common problem with this sort of gadget.
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I think the Apple App Store is going for the same thing. But Amazon is much less restrictive since we're dealing with content rather than applications. I understand why many ebook users don't want the Kindle because of DRM compatibility issues. But in the overall scheme of things (trying to take a niche product mainstream) I think the path they chose really made the most sense.
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For Amazon, yes.
I made a post on MR a while back talking about the market and the likelihood Sony and Amazon would "stay the course".
From my perspective, for Sony, it was about the reader. They make and sell consumer electronics, and came up with a new consumer electronic device, which required them to come up with content to read on the device and an infrastructure to sell it.
For Amazon, I saw it being about the books. Amazon is a major retailer of paper volumes, and saw an opportunity to be the same for electronic works. They already had the content and the infrastructure to deliver it. They just needed a device to display it.
Sony wants to sell you readers, and doesn't care where you get the books. Amazon wants to sell you
books, and does care.
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Dennis