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Quote: Originally Posted by Xian Zhu Xuande It is hard to see it from any angle as something positive for iOS users. I think this is actually Apple's motivation. If this works, iOS users will get a single billing model for all content. With…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jmmx To my mind, it is not reasonable that Apple take a cut (certainly not 30%). If a substantial fraction of all Kindle sales were on the iPad... Would you still argue that Apple didn't deserve even a tiny cut? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by iOSreaper It's Apple they do whatever they like. Absolutely. Sony charge nearer 70% to put content on PSN. But if Apple charge Amazon 30% - then Apple would be making a lot more from the transaction than Amazon t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 What have Apple actually done to deserve that money? They have enabled the customer to get to the content. For instance, imagine that half of all Amazon's kindle books were actually purchased on iOS …
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It's not surprising this Netgear CEO is unhappy. The world he grew up in. And became important in, is crumbling away. His world grew up with a set of rules. *Cheaper goods make more money then premium goods. *Microsoft dictates the speed …
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Quote: Originally Posted by newbee What are you talking about. It's the higher quality that allows for higher prices/profit margins. Try charging more for crap and see how far you get. Apple's component costs are not that much higher than the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by EWTHeckman Key word there: Consent. Exactly. In this brave new world, if you own a platform, you can monetize it how you see fit. Quote: Originally Posted by EWTHeckman The ONLY reason they go through the App …
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd Even if Apple change that figure tomorrow this is still an unholy cockup. Apps have been rejected all week based on these new guidelines which were never broadcast to anyone nor in fact was the wording even chan…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lightknight Let's put it another way. "Microsoft has started enforcing a rule that any program that has access to a web sale MUST sell the items through Microsoft TakeOurCut, arguing the sale is only made thanks to it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd I mean, this is total incompetence if nothing else. It's just a negotiation. Business is war. C.
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd For that reason I think the 30% will not stand. Why does everyone keep going on about 30%? I suspect for an entity like Amazon, shoving hundreds of millions of dollars of product, Apple would be happy with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd If Amazon removes that app, the people buying tablets primarily as an e-book reader with benefits will flee the platform. Calm down! Amazon is not going to shut down all those potential book sales. And Apple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EWTHeckman It seems I need to repeat the question: Is Amazon capable of distributing the same volume of that Kindle app through their own systems without involving Apple at all? Why or why not? They are not capab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tmarks11 Why should apple get any direct benefit from someone's app being popular? Apple gets hardware sales out of the deal. You are allowing yourself to be brainwashed into believing that Apple has some moral right…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd Amazon can do all that. They dont need Apple. They dont need the App Store. Calm down dear. Of course they don't need any sales at all. But they very much like the additional sales they are getting from…
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Quote: Originally Posted by yuusharo Something did happen - Amazon last quarter started selling more Kindle books than paperback for the first time ever. The question is, what proportion of those sales came from the iPad? C.
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Quote: Originally Posted by yuusharo Apple should have never allowed it from the beginning, then. The part that angers me the most is Apple was perfectly fine allowing this to go on while iOS and the App Store was growing. This change is a clas…
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The app store on the iPad is creating tens of millions of Kindle sales for Amazon. How much is that worth to Amazon? a) Zero? b) Nothing. c) Not a penny d) A tidy sum I'd argue that Apple is certainly entitled to something. And of cours…
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Ask a mobile developer. And they'll tell you that an app on the iOS platform generates about five times the revenue of the next best platform. C.