30% Apple

[David Kramer]

On 02/19/2011 10:36 PM, Dan O'Donovan wrote:
> A flame for flame's sake - some tweets by Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) @jonlech
> 
> The whining about Apple's 30% cut is getting tiring. Why don't publishers offer their service via Safari and handle billing themselves?
> 
> Oh right, because that would be an inferior user experience and they don't have 160+ million CCs on file so they would get less customers.
> 
> In summary: they want to leach off Apple's infrastructure investment while keeping most of the revenue.

Uhm, no.  From what I understand, any company that tries to work around
this policy by charging through content delivered to the IOS device
through other means won't get their app approved.  If it was a choice,
the developers wouldn't be so mad.