30% Apple

[David Kramer]

On 02/19/2011 11:39 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> 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.

Yes, Sony can drown in a mountain of malware-infected MemoryStick Pros
and MiniDiscs.  But not all Big Content is evil.