cgoolsby

Requiring a developer to sell their apps in the App Store seems unfair.  

However, should a sale be made privately (i.e., not in the App Store) then Apple should not be held responsible for any issues with said app.  This should be only between the purchaser and developer—even if the app ‘damages’ the operating system in some way.  

Thus the App Store would become a safe place to make a purchase.  The developer should be free to sell in the App Store and privately, with some mechanism in place to tell where the app was purchased.  This would provide App Store ‘safe’ apps, and  private ‘not as safe’ apps, and in my opinion the purchaser should be wary of ‘not as safe’ purchases.

Also Apple should be free to impose whatever requirements (i.e., charges) it wishes for in App Store sales.