The 70/30 split is fair enough, it costs money to host the programs and create the archtecture.
Retail shops have like a 50-100% markup. I'm not sure what technologies you think they've restricted without valid technical reason. They make good products, I 'd say that Blackberry is far worst at creating unvalid fan-lust, they create corporate products yet sponsor T4/MTV etc. Getting content is very open for developers, they libaries for XML/RSS feeds are all there. Their limitations in respect to the App Store (not Mac App Store) allows for security and ease.

iPad is fantastic, it _is_ a new market, but a valid one. You can't stand up on the tube, for example, on a laptop. I use mine all the time. There are alternatives, but in pretty much every tech compairson I've seen in the media, the iPad eaither wins or is on top.

They're slow to release what some call standard features, such as copy'n'paste and notifications, but they do them right. Did WinMo7 come with C&P?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:13, archived)

bollocks is it fair enough!
an app provides content from a third party. They paid to develop the app, and very very rightly pay royalties to the content provider, a magazine publisher or whatever. Content cost money, so you're possibly paying them 70% of your revenue in the first place, so apple then just take the rest, and you're left with... NOTHING. absolutely fucking nothing.

And you can't just NOT have an iPhone app... how gay does that make you look? You can't compete without an iPhone app... and you cna't compete with no viable revenue stream.

As for WinPho7 I know very little about it, and while Nokia are slowly fading away (See the N9 runs Meego???!?!?! WTF?!??!) I doubt I'll need to.

It's been fun listening to Buzz Out Loud and seeing how the Apple iCould stuff works out, turning out to just be a tin pot file sync service and nothing couldy in the slightest. Yet compared to Google & Amazon it'll probably still be heralded as not utter shit as no one else will be aware of the alternatives. Oh, sounds familiar!
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:16, archived)

The app store costs a lot of money to run, not saying it isn't profitable, but it still costs to run.
It also handles a lot of things that smaller developers couldn't handle such as credit card stuff securly. They have created a whole new ethos of application revinue; sale them cheap and sale them lots. There are plenty of apps that create huge profits for their companies.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:23, archived)

There are plenty sure
but plenty that just instantly go out of business.

Stuff costs money. I know. 5% sounds fair. 10% maybe.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:26, archived)

They just have to budget it into their buisness plan, in the same way a physical product has an RRP and Wholesale.
Yeah', sure, it's quite a sizable cut, but the amount of reach it gets is soo much greater that it makes it financially worth while.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:32, archived)

pfft
their business plan for every other outlet of their stuff has to be underpinned by apple?? If they could increase the iPhone app price to cover the additional costs then fine, but they can't without making the app / service more expensive *EVERYWHERE* W T F?
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:36, archived)

As far as RIM go
I found out last night that there are like NO podcast apps for my wifes Curve. RIM chose to disable their apparently excellent Podcasts app for non US / Canada users... wtf???? Now that's REALLY bollocks.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:19, archived)

I honestly can't think of a reason for a home user, esspecailly young teens, to have a RIM product.
OK, I admit the PlayBook looks nice, but that's it.

There isn't a single thing they do 'the best', in my opinion. My cousin had a batmizah last year and had a giant blackberry cake.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:25, archived)

wife swears she will get another one when her contract runs out
don't get it. it's horrible!
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:27, archived)

Yeah', about 25% of my friends go from BB to iPhone, but that remaining amount love them, and I can't work out why.
I had one sitting in a draw for the last 3 years and a girl at work broke hers last month so I gave it to her and she was estatic... but to me it felt horrible to use, even for the 15 minutes I spent getting my data off.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:31, archived)

RIM usually do battery life pretty well, but that's because it doesn't really do anything.

( postal ninja has Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:29, archived)

even the 9900 that's coming out is laughable by low end smart phones.
Reverse in Motion.
( postal ninja has Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:32, archived)

Actually yeah', I'd give them that.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:35, archived)

A giant blackberry cake sounds nice.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:29, archived)

baked cheesecake
That's how to do a blackberry proud.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Mon 27 Jun 2011, 22:36, archived)