30% Apple

[bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:36:23PM -0500, 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.

As soon as I heard about Apple's 30% take and price-matched inside/outside
app purchases, I figured Amazon must have a roomful of coders trying to
build Kindle Reader as an HTML 5 web app.

Saturday night, 11 PM.  They're probably working right now.

/me waves.

-ben

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