Apple doesn’t get it
Friday, March 7th, 2008I doubt few of my readers have missed that Apple just released the iPhone SDK. How many read through the fine print?
Bottom line is: If you want to sell apps for the iPhone you gotta give Apple 30%. Thirty percent!?
Why?!
Apple is making ridiculous money off selling the iPhone. The more apps the iPhone gets, the more iPhone’s they will sell, the more money they will make.
In Swedish we have an expression for this. “Dumsnål”, literally “stupid greedy”. You get greedy about some detail so that you end up loosing money on the bigger picture. The reason Windows dominated over Mac back in the days was partly because Windows had more and better apps. Is Steve doing the same mistake again?
