People, not the least of which is the founder, keep proposing plans to divvy up the App.net subscription fee among third party app providers. Such schemes worr

People, not the least of which is the founder, keep proposing plans to divvy up the App.net subscription fee among third party app providers. Such schemes worry me. The incentives are all wrong. App developers must fight each other for their share of a fixed number of dollars-per-customer. It'll be like Lord of the Flies in the app store. This is no way to grow a developer community. It'll be trade secrets and whispers and bitterness and dirty tricks. As more and more popular apps come out, your revenue-per-user will tend to drop irrespective of the virtues of your own app. How does one set the overall price? Pricing a simple service is hard enough. And how much energy will App.net dissipate in building a complex profit-sharing infrastructure, adjudicating disputes, policing new and exciting forms of fraud? Keep it simple.