This argument is tantamount to saying MSFT owns windows and so deserves 30% of all purchases made through IE. This is insane.
If Apple wants to provide infrastructure developers can use for handling in-app purchases, and give them the option to do so, that is fine. Forcing people who write software for their platform to use their APIs for in app purchasing, and to pay 30% is wrong.
Apple does not own phones it has sold. The owners do, that is why they paid for them.
A better analogy would be Lenovo, Dell, HP requiring all software installed on their laptop or desktop machines to be purchased through them and skimming 30%.
I didn't imply a positive or negative view (though I do disagree with it). I was simply offering a better hardware analogy since I disagree that Apple's hardware lock-in would be similar a Microsoft Windows lock-in.
They already force people who wrote for their platform to use their API's for everything, and charge 30%, and on top of that $99 a year. I don't see anything new. They provide the payment infrastructure and the back-end.
This argument is tantamount to saying MSFT owns windows and so deserves 30% of all purchases made through IE. This is insane.
If Apple wants to provide infrastructure developers can use for handling in-app purchases, and give them the option to do so, that is fine. Forcing people who write software for their platform to use their APIs for in app purchasing, and to pay 30% is wrong.
Apple does not own phones it has sold. The owners do, that is why they paid for them.