That's pretty much what Apple is doing.
only if you purchase the subscription through safari
That's pretty much what Apple is doing.
A lot of people wouldn't be paying for SkyDrive space if not for the iOS app and in-app payments.
For example, Best Buy don't take commission for all future MMO game subscriptions when that product was purchased at its store.
That's just wrong. Of course there is an agreement between the two parties.
Huh, what?Because their position to be the payment processor has a substantial effect on improving sales. A lot of people wouldn't be paying for SkyDrive space if not for the iOS app and in-app payments.
That's exactly what Apple is doing.
Then why is there a disagreement between the two parties?
That's ridiculous, but at least semi justifiable. They're hosting and advertising the e-books after all. Much the same way Apple hosts and advertises apps, and thus deserve a cut of the payment there.
But this is for subscription services, which Apple would normally have nothing to do with if they didn't strong-arm their way into the middle of it all. They're taking a cut for something they don't directly deserve.
That's what Apple is forcing people to do.
It'd be like if you bought your copy of WoW at Gamestop, you had to buy subscription cards at their store to continue playing the game. They're not allowing you to pay Blizzard directly.
That's a subscription card. If someone buys the game, and signs up for a WoW subscription through their credit card, Gamestop gets no cut whatsoever.
Why should they? They're not hosting the WoW servers. They're not even processing the payments by that point.
You're not getting it. You gave an example where two agreed to a mutually beneficial deal. Here, you have apple trying to strong arm Microsoft for a cut with a non mutually benefitial tos. And you claim that there is an agreement?Because one party doesn't want to follow the terms of that agreement?
Are you really unaware that developers need to agree to Apple's terms in order to offer their apps on the App Store?
Sure, there's bias in Gruber's site. There's bias in every site/blog but the question is whether or not it's unreasonable to the extent that it makes the site not worth reading. Gruber, in my experience, isn't terribly biased despite being primarily an Apple-focused site.
And no, Gruber often brings up his own gripes about Apple that haven't been acknowledged elsewhere beforehand. They're primarily about UI issues which seems to be his pet peeve.
I pointed that out because it's clear to me that you don't really read Gruber's site frequently enough to criticize it accurately. The fact that you didn't even write the name of the site correctly is a dead-giveaway. Try following his site if you want to criticize it. There are legitimate things to criticize him for (one being that he occasionally engages other sites/bloggers in extended pissing matches that are far less interesting to his readers than he assumes) but an unreasonable bias in favor of Apple isn't one.
The annual subscription and required software is hardly a boat load of cash against the revenue acquired from in-app purchases. Now you're worried that poor MS is paying too much? OKAY.
But Apple is hosting the application, advertising, webmasters, bandwidth in their store. All that costs money. The iTunes store should be self sustaining, not loosing money.
But Apple is hosting the application, advertising, webmasters, bandwidth in their store. All that costs money. The iTunes store should be self sustaining, not loosing money.
*beep* We do.
But Apple is hosting the application, advertising, webmasters, bandwidth in their store. All that costs money. The iTunes store should be self sustaining, not loosing money.
That's just FUD.
Not at all. It's like Gamestop agreeing to carry a free version of Wow, but only on the condition that Blizzard allows them to sell subscription cards as well. Blizzard is free to sell subscriptions directly to people outside the store.
Hosting is minuscule work compared with the skydrive service. And hosting benefits apple by making a lot of apps easily available benefitting the apple ecosystem, of which that got paid upfront when they sold their apple device.
That is what the $99 annual fee is for. .
That is what the $99 annual fee is for.
What advertising do Apple do? They list applications and choose themselves what small minority of applications get to be on a featured list.
That is what the $99 annual fee is for.
What advertising do Apple do? They list applications and choose themselves what small minority of applications get to be on a featured list.