Hedware

cropr said:

Being an app developer myself, I might share  what I will do when 3rd party app store and payment engines will become available for iOS apps. I don't develop games, only business related apps linked to a cloud service.  My apps are all available on iOS, Android and the Web (for PC and Mac)

1.  I will move all my apps to an app store that gives me much better marketing.    From a developer point of view the marketing of the Apple App Store sucks.   I did a survey among my customers and none of them have discovered my apps in the pApp store.     This is the main reason to move away from the Apple App Store.  In the first few years of the App Store the marketing was OK, but now there are so many apps on the App Store, that I have to provide my own marketing.
2. My ideal app store should not impose business restrictions as the Apple App store does currently:  it should allow me to give discounts to my clients who buy multiple apps from me, it should let me distribute vouchers, it should allow special "launch offers", it should allow to have another main currency (e.g. the Euro) so that when the exchange rate changes the cost in Euro does not change, but the cost in $ does.
   
3. My ideal app store should distribute iOS and Android versions of my apps, and should allow me to link the web version of my app.  I basically don't care which version of my app is downloaded.
   
4. For payments I would use Ingenico, a well respected payment service provider, that I am currently using for the web version of my apps (I never had any fraud issue with Ingenico).   As such I will have 1 single payment service provider for all my apps on all devices..  Operationally this will lower the cost of my accounting and my help desk.

I might assume that Apple after a while might react when more and more app stores becoming available.  Especially on point 2 Apple might move a bit to become more developer friendly.
 

I will buying from Apple Store only and not from ideal app stores as you suggest. You don’t offer enough to bother buying from your store. I am not interested in having to do evaluations of the payment gateway, the privacy safeguards and the security of my information of third part app stores. There’s plenty of fish in the Apple App Store. 

It’s disturbing that so many pricks here are okay with the wages of low level employees being kept stagnant and falling behind inflation and rises in the cost of living despite Apple benefiting from their work and increasing its profit margins. It is a right in Australia to form unions and for employees to be members of those unions. Otherwise Australia would have employers with the slave ownership mentality of US employers and corporations. 

Madbum said:

Hedware said:

Apple facing wage revolts by employees connected to the making and selling of Apple products and not just in China. Never mind, Apple senior executives continue to be very well paid even if the workers get minimal share of the profits. 

Wage revolts when they are already highest paid factory workers in China… you do know that right?

Wage rates are relative. Besides there’s complaints about working conditions as well.

Give the source for the ‘highest paid factory workers in China’ saying. It keeps being said without actual evidence attached to it.

Apple facing wage revolts by employees connected to the making and selling of Apple products and not just in China. Never mind, Apple senior executives continue to be very well paid even if the workers get minimal share of the profits. 

JFC_PA said:

Is there an available explanation for selecting “ The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union” to represent retail sales clerks? Machinists and aerospace workers seemingly worlds apart from sales clerks. And with that minimal expertise in how a sales position functions. 

What about Apple pinching its name from the fruit growers association’s products?