Sidestepping Apple: Companies rethink app strategies
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- chrisRG
Interesting article.
We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad.
Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks like for companies trying to avoid giving a 30% cut to Cupertino. Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble all removed the stores from their iOS applications on Monday, as well as any hyperlinks to or mentions of their online stores....
- animatedgif0
More interesting is FT because Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble are still desperately trying to get on the app store and make money there while FT have said fuck it and made a HTML5 web app instead.
- Boz0
I'm glad that the world is starting to see it the way i do :) Jobs and Apple have always been scumbags..
They make killer nice products but the fuckers are so greedy, anti-competitive it's not even funny. Their business practices are borderline mafia like. Worse than Microsoft or any other tech company.
- detritus0
Ah Boz, with your deeply polarised wholly self-involved worldview, of course *you're* the only one to have though about this.
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- yeah..keep backpeddling dipstick..Boz
- Second post is 2009... not sure how on Earth I can back-peddle an opinion I had before you even returned to QBNdetritus
- you're crying why detritus? because someone who disagrees with you is as passionate about their beliefs? why so condescending?registe
- why so condescending?registe
- You really are a pointless schlub. v3 - I'm not ‘crying’ (to borrow your infantile vernacular), rather proving to Boz that I'm not the Apple fanboy he seems to think I am.detritus
- Apple fanboy he seems to think I am. I just like pricking Boz's hermetically-sealed worldview.detritus
- *shurgs* you, of all people, should know I'm only condescending to those who ask for it...detritus
- By the way - I think you'll find I'm actually agreeing with Boz. But hey, don't let reality spoil your paltry prejudice.detritus
- I personally think you are douche, but what do I know with my narrow worldviewBoz
- Exactly.detritus
- JSK0
Bypassing App store can create potential havoc on consumers.
I see App store as a safety guard for users.
- vaxorcist0
well, the true side of Steve Job's business-mindset was shown in that video recently here, where he got a few thousand $$ for a project, outsourced it to Steve Woz for a few hundred and kept the difference....
- prophetone0
steve jobs on the mic, top gunnin'... powerrrr
- omg0
These are the same rules they impose on Amazon's Kindle, and B&N Nook. They do not allow you to open up Book Stores on their devices. It would be like having a Burger King inside a McDonalds. However people expect Apple to be a food court here. Where all the fast food restaurants live happy ever after.
Why Apple takes all the slack here? At high levels, this only affects book conglomerates like Amazon and B&N. If publishers are smart, they'd put their books in the Apple Store and Amazon. If book writers were smart, they'd beef up better websites.
- is apple a store like any other, or is it a "common carrier" nearing monopoly status? chokehold on the others???vaxorcist
- you forgot to add an obligatory Boz hating blabber in there.Boz
- @ Boz. I don't hate, I just don't lie to others to get my point acrossomg
- @vaxorcist. Apple is a small bookstore, and a new tablet maker. Amazon is a long standing conglomerate here.omg
- Yeah big bad Amazon against small mom and pop Apple.Boz
- Amazon is your Wallmart. Apple is akin to a Nintendo system.omg
- jon_d0
Don't worry Apple will let the success get to their heads again and tank just like the 90s.
It's only a matter of time.
- When 70% of your revenue is based on iPhone/iPad it's more than obvious really. That's why they panic so much with Android and with lawsuits.Boz
- Android and with lawsuits.Boz
- @boz. Apple isn't panicing. Too many counterfeits and iPhone clone makers out there like samsungomg
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- ernexbcn0
OH NOES
- JSK0
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2…
hey now 35%
- Boz0
35% of the time, works every time.
- Hombre_Lobo0
Open platform for the win.
- JSK0
Jerks