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As I'm reading it, they're going to charge 15 cents per megabyte to deliver the app itself to the device. That cost will be deducted from the app price, and th
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
As I'm reading it, they're going to charge 15 cents per megabyte to deliver the app itself to the device. That cost will be deducted from the app price, and the remainder is what will be split 70/30 with developers. They cap over-the-air delivery at 10 meg. Anything over that is downloaded to user's computer, then to kindle via usb. Cumbersome.
So you could have up to $1.50 of the app price deducted for delivery fees.
Probably not going to settle in on a 99 cent price point...
- mcobrien 17y agoDefinitely cumbersome, but you'd be hard pressed to find a 99c iPhone app that's 10MB. With the simplicity of typical apps and platform restrictions (black & white!), a lot will fit in the first 1MB.
- gyardley 17y agoRight now two of the top ten paid iPhone apps are both $0.99 and over 10MB. I'm of the impression that this is quite common.
- dagw 17y agoI wonder if apps will be allowed to connect to the internet and if so will there be any charges there. If not, the obvious workaround is to write the smallest possible app and then let the app download additional features on the fly as it is used. I'm guessing Amazon have thought of this though and will crack down on it somehow.
- dagw 17y agoYup, just found the link to Amazons SDK website, and anything over 100KB/month the user will have have to pay for somehow.