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Are you serious? I just subscribed to a stock trading app's data service in-app. So Apple gets to keep 30% of my monthly fee in perpetuity although I've had a r
by anonymous246 16y ago
Are you serious? I just subscribed to a stock trading app's data service in-app. So Apple gets to keep 30% of my monthly fee in perpetuity although I've had a relationship with the brokerage longer than I've had with Apple.
This is frigging bullshit. And the sad thing is that Google et al will seek to emulate this ($800 tablet anyone?) rather than demolish it. Also Android devices' UX sucks, which is why I had to reluctantly buy an iPhone.
- apike 16y agoStock trading apps' data services are decidedly not consumer SaaS for the mass market. They're business/prosumer, a world that already has success in getting small numbers of profitable subscribers. The winners are apps that weren't even possible before - $1/month subscriptions for normal people.
- anonymous246 16y agoUmm, I think you're missing the point. The point was about a pre-existing relationship that was exercised on a Apple-designed device. How does it matter whether it's prosumer or not.
- apike 16y agoMy point is that the relationship you describe doesn't exist in the mass consumer space, and Apple is enabling something exciting and new there. Your point is that the pro/business space Apple's "must go through the app store" rule is a nuisance. I think we're both right.