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Does anyone know if you have an app in the OS X app store, but you also want to distribute on your own, if this is allowed under the terms? Or, is it pretty muc
by mirkules 16y ago
Does anyone know if you have an app in the OS X app store, but you also want to distribute on your own, if this is allowed under the terms? Or, is it pretty much once you go into the app store there is no coming out of it?
From Apple's business perspective, it would make sense to lock you in -- they probably don't want to foot the bill to advertise for you and then you go sell your software on the side full price without Apple getting their cut.
From developers' perspective, this would severely limit distribution channels, and force them to give up 30% of revenue.
In theory, a developer could release the "lite" version of his app, and link to his own distribution mechanism within that app. Is this allowed?
- slantyyz 16y agoWe'll find out in 90 days.
- alextgordon 16y agoThere is nothing in the terms that says you can't do that, but that doesn't mean they won't add it later (I don't think they will). From developers' perspective, this would severely limit distribution channels, and force them to give up 30% of revenue. Or increase their prices by 43% just for the store.
- derefr 16y agoA more interesting question to me is, if I install an app—that's also on the App Store—manually, will the App Store still update it for me? To put that another way, are these apps "App Store apps" that make particular calls to the OS to tell them as such? Or are they just regular bundles, with external metadata stored only on the Store's servers?