Apple acts like the Government
The AppStore is a great thing isn’t it? You get all your iPhone/iPod Touch apps from it, it’s like a hub for everything iPhone/iPod Touch. But there is more then what meets the eye. Every person who puts his app for a price on the iTunes AppStore has to pay a 30% ‘maintenance fee’ to Apple. That’s fine for huge game developing companies like EA, Sega, Gameloft. But not every developer is a Sega, for others 30% is a big deal. So these n00b game developers are putting their apps for free on the iTunes store. Apple is disappointed by this news and was encouraging the developers to charge for their work as the business model of the Appstore is based on Apple getting the 30%. A survey actually pointed out that 71% of the apps on the App Store were going/already free, which is huge :)
However Apple isn’t charging any fees for hosting these applications on their lame servers. I say lame because if you recall the iTunes servers were down when the new firmware came out for the iPhone/iPod Touch also the same time when the iPhone 3G was launched. The AppStore is not a bad thing but Apple is being a dick about it. Yeah, there I called Apple a dick :P
So how is this related to the Government? Well the government taxes people and do nothing great for them, I am obviously here talking as an Indian. You see how I can get our government into all most anything? That’s what I actually wanted to prove :P
Anyway, the iPhone is a money making cow, as my friend Sanjit Nair rightly said. And the AppStore is just the beginning. It’s a huge platform and now it’s actually being treated as a gaming platform like the PlayStation Portable or a PDA. Most of the 3rd party applications are inclined towards the entertainment aspect of life, some of them are great utilities which help you to navigate through life more easily. I have personally tried most of the free apps, some of them are by far the most lamest thing ever created and some of them actually blow you away.
My favorite application list includes; Cube Runner, Spell Number, Scribble, CheckPlease, PhoneSaber, Blip Solitaire, Bubbles and eReader. [The links provided here when opened will open up your iTunes, if you don't have iTunes installed you can always get it here]
As far as the paid applications go, I decided to stay away from them the main reason being I don’t have a credit card. Sad? Yes very sad indeed. Anyway I am really waiting for Super Monkey Ball to be available for free through hacks or something.
So to just sum it up : AppStore is great but Apple charges every developer who puts his application on the AppStore for a price which is why many developers are thinking of putting their apps for free and probably adding some fancy very WEB 2.0 ‘Donate here’ button. Or maybe they could get sponsors/ad-sense or whatever.
Oh and I have decided to stand in line for the iPhone when it’s launched in India, a night before outside the Vodafone store but the problem is I don’t wanna get one, so I am asking people around who want to get an iPhone and I could stand with them XD
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15 Responses to “Apple acts like the Government”
Do u expect people to QUEUE up in front of Apple stores??
High Hopes!
By Sanjit Nair on Jul 24, 2008
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Remember what happened in NZ/AUS?
And anyway India is a rich country now, I expect people’s driver’s to stand in the line while they sleep/mess around with their co-worker/cheat on their wives/dance with MJ :D
By Jayesh on Jul 24, 2008
LOL! High hopes again. Real High Hopes.
Indians are RICH but not FOOLISH! They don’t stand in queue for their ration rice why the f wud they do for a iPhone!
By Sanjit Nair on Jul 24, 2008
Indians are dumb dude, if a rich guy like Tata uses the Indian toilet system, most people will start using the Indian toilet system too. Because India is a country of blonds :P
And ration ke liye people stand, poor ones. But rich will stand for the ration of the iPhone (Y)
By Jayesh on Jul 24, 2008
Seriously man Jayesh, stop having high hopes, I know Apple pwns but the iPhone sucks :/
By Steve on Jul 25, 2008
iPod Touch pwns iPhone (Y)
By Jayesh on Jul 25, 2008
@Jayesh : I kinda agree, the screen is better right by like 3 pixels or something?
By Steve on Jul 26, 2008
Yup, 3 pixels.
By Jayesh on Jul 26, 2008
Sound a lot, is it a lot? :P
By Steve on Jul 26, 2008
No it’s not you bobblehead :@
By Jayesh on Jul 27, 2008
Lol when a Nokia employee asks that you shouldn’t answer it :P
By Steve on Jul 27, 2008
You have a point :|
By Jayesh on Jul 27, 2008
I am planning to get either an iPhone or an iPod. Tell me which is better or better yet write a post about it XD
By Rohan on Jul 28, 2008
Get Touch ^
By Steve on Sep 8, 2008
Shit I forgot to reply to all Rohan’s comments.
Next post @Rohan will be about this :P
By Jayesh on Sep 8, 2008