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An App Store For iPhone Software

Posted by kdawson on from the can-you-run-me-now dept.

Steve Jobs demonstrated a new "App Store" that will be pushed out to all iPhones in June. It's available now in beta. This will be the exclusive avenue developers will use to get their iPhone apps, written to the newly released SDK, to customers. Developers will get 70% of the proceeds from sales of their goods on the App store, with no further charges for hosting, credit-card processing, etc. Jobs called this "the best deal going to distribute applications in the mobile space."

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  1. Re:It's an accounting thing by DECS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah there's lots of small developers making lots of money selling code for Linux. And what a profitable business Windows shareware is.

    Of course, we're talking about mobile software here, so adjust your belt to consider that Windows Mobile software is a joke and most Linux phones don't even support development, and in particular open development.

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