If you have capacity to ramp up to 100x of something that you can sell with an easy 30%+ margin on the profits, you are sitting pretty almost by definition. I'd be shocked to know that this includes anyone covered by this new ruling.
Also.... What about the other direction? Might be small, but I'm sure some made the plunge onto the IPhone because it has the kindle app, for example. (That is, the content was the tipping point for some folks.) On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Chess <chessm...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I sold 100x more product using that eBay application then I would > happily pay the 30% per product. > > > On Feb 16, 11:03 am, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Subscribers of a newspaper are typically allowed to insert ads, >> personals etc. for free... it's a good way to keep people subscribed >> to your newspaper. One could argue that when you buy an iPad you >> become a permanent subscriber, when you pay Apple 99,- to be a >> developer, you also become a publisher on that medium. The thing is, >> where does the skimming stop? Could you imagine for instance Apple >> skimming 30% of everything you sell using an eBay application? >> >> On Feb 16, 4:39 pm, Chess <chessm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Sure. Lets face it, would the Newspapers/Magazines etc let Apple or >> > others use their platform to advertise/provide services for free? >> >> > On Feb 16, 10:17 am, Moandji Ezana <mwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Chess <chessm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > > I dunno, I can see Apples viewpoint. >> >> > > > Apple has invested millions of dollars in research, development, >> > > > production, support to create a very popular platform. Now publishers >> > > > can come and put out an app for free and take complete advantage of >> > > > the platform for their own benefit, and not have to pay a penny to do >> > > > so. >> >> > > You could say the same for OS X. Do you think they should do the same >> > > thing >> > > there? >> >> > > Moandji > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
