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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. except direct sales by milamber3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    which would net the developer much closer to 100% of the proceeds. Sounds like a rather cushy deal for Apple to monopolize something else. When you want to buy some software for another PDA, the company that made the PDA generally doesn't take 30%.

  2. What about personal apps? by MadCow42 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I guess I'm screwed if I want to write an application just for my own use? The choice seems to be: write it and distribute it to everyone, or get stuffed.

    Hmmm... iHacking we will go, iHacking we will go.......

    MadCow

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  3. I can smell the irony now. by Ustice · · Score: 0, Troll

    So... What happens when Microsoft wants to make a iPhone version of IE (iE?)? I assume that since that would be a threat to Safari that it would be blocked. That sounds awfully familiar... I can smell the ironic court cases, even now.

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  4. Re:It's an accounting thing by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lame excuse. How about all the apps I have got _after_ one year of buying a product? e.g. all the application updates/new apps that lenovo is making available to my T60 completely FREE?

  5. Re:It's an accounting thing by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Troll

    $99 per developer to publish as many software titles as you want for free *is* low money. If you can't afford a $99 developer program, you probably can't afford the $399 device to test it on or the computer to host it, or the food to eat while you code... Sorry, I forgot how a high class device iPhone was. I used/use freeware applications developed on $80 second hand S60 phones/cheap PCs on a $1000 Nokia PDA. Never thought those guys had to be rich to develop freeware for free.

    You learn a new thing every day. That $100 will cost $thousands to iPhone users, there is already a case known as "Handango" on market and $30-$40 text editors. That is what happens if you alienate those naive people from developing freeware on your market creating competition/pro active defence against any idiot who can claim a unlicensed 3rd party IM program is worth $30.
  6. new from Apple: more vendor lock-in by obarthelemy · · Score: 0, Troll

    people who give up their freedom don't deserve it anyway (approx. quote)

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