On businesses that can't afford 30%: Too bad, Apple wants to be the middleman
On price matching: Apple won't budge because their competitors (e.g. Amazon) insist on price matching
On the 30% slice itself: Apple is proposing that publishers (et al) will make more money at 70% than they'd make at 95% with someone else's business model
On (anti-)competitiveness: Apple is the only one which allows its competitors to have apps on its devices
Summary: iOS is a closed, controlled console system - more akin to Playstation or Xbox than to Mac OS X or Windows
What I do not understand is why no-one is complaining about Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 as a closed system but about Apples iOS line.
WHY is Apple bad for closing a system but Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are not? I really do not understand that.
WHY on earth has a cellphone to be open as a OpenSource project? Is there a reason for that? (Android has open sources but no-one can commit changes. It's all in Googles hands what comes into the next Android version which doesn't fit with OpenSource at all)
WHY is taking a 30% cut bad for all developers and Apps? (Jobs said that the 30% cut is not for SASS Apps but only for Newspaper Apps, right?)
Please give me some answers I'm starting to don't understand these discussions lately.
On businesses that can't afford 30%: Too bad, Apple wants to be the middleman
On price matching: Apple won't budge because their competitors (e.g. Amazon) insist on price matching
On the 30% slice itself: Apple is proposing that publishers (et al) will make more money at 70% than they'd make at 95% with someone else's business model
On (anti-)competitiveness: Apple is the only one which allows its competitors to have apps on its devices
Summary: iOS is a closed, controlled console system - more akin to Playstation or Xbox than to Mac OS X or Windows