30% Apple

[Richard Pieri]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:00 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> 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.

This is exactly why Sony's Reader app was rejected.

It isn't developers in general who are angry about this.  It's Big Content, the ones who already have their own locked-down stores and distribution channels, who see Apple's rules as the direct threat to their business models that they are.  And incidentally streaming radio outfits like Last.fm and Pandora who may be getting shafted accidentally.  I am interested in how this does play out for their sakes.  Sony can die in a fire for all I care, but Pandora and Last.fm don't deserve to be casualties in this.

--Rich P.