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)