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'Spotify risks being derailed by Apple subscription charge', says music bossTelegraph.co.uk - Emma Barnett - 23 Feb, 2011Spotify risks having its whole business model derailed by Apple's App Store subscription service fee, according to Ben Drury, chief executive of 7digital, an online music retailer and partner of the popular Swedish streaming service. ... |
FTC to probe into Apple's marketing of in-app purchasesXinhua - 23 Feb, 2011BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- The Federal Trade Commission will probe into Apple's marketing of in-app purchases in games for children such as "Smurfs' Village", after it received a complaint from a US legislator, according to the Washington Post. ... |
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Enough with the cry-baby 'open letters' to AppleZDNet (blog) - David Morgenstern - 23 Feb, 2011In the weeks before a major Apple event, such as the annual Worldwide Developers Conference or shareholders meeting, someone tries to rally the developer community with an “open letter” to the Apple ... |
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FTC May Crack Down On Apple In-App Purchases (AAPL)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 23 Feb, 2011The US Federal Trade Commission is taking a close look at Apple's policies for in-app purchases after a series of reports showing that kids ran up huge tabs without realizing what they were doing. The Washington Post reports that the FTC sent a letter ... |
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Another voice: Another bite by AppleVictoria Times Colonist - 23 Feb, 2011As CD sales plummeted, music executives looked in hope toward a new business model: Instead of trying to sell albums for $15 to $20 apiece, offer unlimited access to songs online for a flat monthly fee. The idea, however, has yet to catch on with the ... |
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FTC looking into Apple's in-app purchasing policyCNET - Erica Ogg - 23 Feb, 2011iPad and iPhone apps aimed at kids are now the subject of a review by the FTC. The Federal Trade Commission will review how Apple markets games with in-app purchases, but not for the reason you may think. Apple introduced a controversial ... |
Post Tech: FTC chairman to probe Apple iPhone in-app purchasesWashington Post - Cecilia Kang - 23 Feb, 2011The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it will launch a review into Apple's marketing and delivery of applications that charge users for products and services through the iTunes store. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz wrote in a ... |
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Top 4 Publisher Objections to Apple SubscriptionsPC Magazine - Peter Pachal - 23 Feb, 2011Last week Apple unveiled its long-awaited App Store subscription model. There wasn't much fanfare, but the potential impact on content providers is massive. The new rules"which give Apple a 30% cut of in-app subscription revenue"were ... |
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iPhone dev knocks Apple over vague new sub rulesComputerworld - Gregg Keizer - 23 Feb, 2011Computerworld - An iPhone developer today said trying to get information from Apple about its new subscription model is like "hitting a brick wall," and remains unsure whether his app will have to toe the new line. ... |
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Steve Jobs clarifies 'Subscription Gate' confusion with more confusionRegister - 23 Feb, 2011The increasingly convoluted morass of Apple's latest App Store Guidelines " notably whether software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps are now verboten in the sacred store " has prompted what may be a response from Steve Jobs himself. ... |
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Apple's App Rules Prompt Charges Of 'Greed'InformationWeek - Thomas Claburn - 23 Feb, 2011But an email attributed to CEO Steve Jobs suggests it's only publishers who need to comply with new subscription selling requirements. By Thomas Claburn , InformationWeek Apple's new subscription rules and its decision to begin enforcing its ... |
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Why There's No Stopping the Android TrainPCWorld - Katherine Noyes - 23 Feb, 2011It's a rare week indeed that doesn't see the emergence of some fresh news of Android's ascendance, but lately the evidence has been coming particularly fast and furious, suggesting that there really is no stopping the mobile ... |
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Steve Jobs: Subscription Terms Only Apply to Publishing AppsTIME - Doug Aamoth - 23 Feb, 2011Apple's recently-announced subscription model for apps has caused a bit of a ruckus with publishers. To recap, any content-based iPhone and iPad apps wishing to leverage recurring subscriptions must give Apple a 30% ... |
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Steve Jobs Says Apple Subscriptions Are Only for PublishersPC Magazine - Leslie Horn - 23 Feb, 2011Last week, Apple unveiled a long-awaited subscription model for "content-based apps" that was met with criticism almost immediately. Now an email from Apple CEO Steve Jobs reinforced that the model applies to publishers, ... |
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Will Apple Charge Music Sub Services 30 Percent or Won't They?Wired News (blog) - Eliot Van Buskirk - 23 Feb, 2011The oracle of Cupertino has spoken once again, revealing more about Apple's plan to charge certain developers of subscription apps 30 percent of revenue for selling subscription apps within the iTunes App Store in (yet ... |
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Apple iOS is tightly closed, Android is mostly openZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - 23 Feb, 2011Google has taken great pains to make Android a completely open platform that works to the user's benefits. That is mostly true, but there are several layers of “openness”. James Kendrick has been using ... |
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Just how is Apple's iOS subscription policy good for users?Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Shane Richmond - 23 Feb, 2011The two points of Apple's subscription policy that have provoked criticism are, first, the 30 per cent cut for Apple from any content publishers sell within their app and, second, ... |
Steve Jobs Muddies iOS Subscription ControversyPCWorld - Ian Paul - 23 Feb, 2011Steve Jobs has reportedly weighed in on the iOS in-app subscriptions controversy with one of his famously terse e-mails, but the latest one-liner from Apple's CEO doesn't clear things up. ... |
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Further reading: Windows 8 and Google faces fresh search complaintFinancial Times (blog) - Phill Tutt - Feb 22, 2011Microsoft is on the verge of putting the finishing touches to a key stage in the development of Windows 8, according to WinRumors. The “M2″ build is then expected to be distributed internally and externally to the company's closest partners. ... |
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Apple, FDA, US Patent Office; Nokia: Intellectual PropertyBloomberg - Ellen Rosen - Feb 21, 2011Apple Inc.'s growing competition from Google Inc. and tablet makers may shield it from possible antitrust concerns over its iPad newspaper subscriptions services, said European Union regulators. ... |
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Apple 'greed' tax spreads beyond music, movies, magazinesRegister - Feb 21, 2011Apple's recently enacted "give us 30 per cent of your subscription revenue" dictum is metastasizing beyond online magazines, newspapers, music services, and video apps, ensnaring at least one software-as-a-service app as well. ... |
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Readability maker Arc90 isn't happy with Apple's App Store subscription planLos Angeles Times - Feb 21, 2011Arc90, the maker of the Web app Readability, is not pleased with Apple's new App Store subscription plan. The problems? Apple rejected the Readability iOS app. And the 30% cut of revenue for subscriptions sold through its App Store is the same cut that ... |
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While everyone else thinks 'tablets,' Apple thinks 'ecosystem'ZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - Feb 21, 2011What's the key to Apple being able to bring out a $500 tablet when the competition can't? It's having a profitable app and media ecosystem. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally ... |
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Regulators eye Apple subscription planFinancial Post - Feb 21, 2011NEW YORK/BRUSSELS " US and European regulators are keeping tabs on Apple Inc's plans to take a cut of the revenue generated by the sale of online subscriptions through its App Store following concerns voiced by publishers. Some app makers are unhappy ... |
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Apple App Store: the giant in the app marketThe Guardian (blog) - Feb 21, 2011Anyone wondering why so many mobile developers have Apple blinkers on when deciding which smartphones to support should take a look at the latest research from IHS Screen Digest. As outlined by AppleInsider, it puts numbers to the sales on the four ... |
Magid: Apple, Google offer publishers competing online payment systemsSan Jose Mercury News - Larry Magid - Feb 21, 2011Google and Apple last week announced competing online payment systems to allow publishers to charge for content on digital devices. Apple's system is designed to work with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, while Google announced its will ... |
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newCBC News on your mobile deviceCBC.ca - Feb 20, 2011Get the CBC News hybrid Android app in the Android Market or on your computer here. Get the CBC News Blackberry launcher app in the Blackberry App World. Or on your computer here. Don't want an app? You can still enjoy CBC News on one of our mobile ... |
Apple is dictating all the terms " and we shouldn't have to accept themThe Guardian - Feb 20, 2011Once, the currency of wisdom seemed to consist in knowing who one's father was. Latterly, in these business obsessed times, knowing your own customers seems to have become more important. Which, of course, was the promise of the internet for harassed ... |
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No longer the Apple of every publisher's eyeThe Guardian (blog) - Feb 20, 2011There was a time, not so long ago, when Apple was heralded as the saviour of the publishing industry. Steve Jobs's company would miraculously convince a generation to pay for online news. Its "Jesus tablet", the iPad, would be so popular with consumers ... |
Newspapers Fall Out of Love With Apple Over Subscription PolicyThe Atlantic - Earl J. Wilkinson - Feb 20, 2011The past year's relationship between Apple and newspaper publishers proves the old adage that love is blind. It's clear from the new Apple app policy that love needs more time to prove itself. Apple's new iTunes subscription policy throws a wet blanket ... |
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