Apple has released the guidelines for its new “Mac App Store,” and they’re basically the same as for the iPhone: an iron hand controlling the whole process, no guarantee of placement, a 30% cut to Apple, and a whole lot of rules that limit content.
Walled garden crap like this is objectionable on a phone, but Apple’s getting away with it because of how fragmented the market has been. Walled garden bullshit on a real desktop platform is complete and utter horseshit, and deserves to be denounced from every quarter. Seriously, Steve, fuck this. It’s obnoxious and controlling, and could seriously damage your platform.
What’s wrong with programmer getting 70%? When they introduced this scheme on the Iphone it was reported that programmers were falling all over themselves due to the rich payout.
It’s a huge and greedy grab when, right now, Apple gets 0% of a dev’s revenue.
The bigger problem is the level of control this implies Apple would like to exert over the desktop experience. I don’t want Steve deciding which programs I can run on my MBP in the same way he does my phone.