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Subject: 30% Apple
From: odonovan-/2FeUQLD3jedFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz at public.gmane.org (Dan O'Donovan)
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:36:23 -0500
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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.

http://twitter.com/#!/jonlech

... Not that I necessarily agree, I just hadn't expected him to be so pro closed business model.

Dan

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Dan O'Donovan
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