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I keep getting the code word you entered is wrong. It's the bolded letters right?-Paul Keith (July 11, 2010, 06:28 PM)
Thanks for the tipp App. I wouldn't have found that!
- Oshyan-JavaJones (July 11, 2010, 06:08 PM)
Don't forget that despite not coding one line in your app, Apple willingly takes 30% of your profit off the top. That's effing greedy, folks!As does Google if you sale in their market, and I believe Microsoft said their mobile store would be the same or similar. Is 30% that bad when you consider it means you don't have to set up a store, actually handle credit card fees, or pay for the bandwidth? I'm seriously asking as it doesn't seem that bad to me.-zridling (July 06, 2010, 04:59 PM)
I dislike Apple's policies and the corporate attitude they project, but I'm not sure I see this 70-30 split being so outrageous.
Now the fact that a developer interested in selling an iOS app to non-jailbreaking users has no other choice but to accept Apple's 70-30 deal is absolutely maddening.-TheQwerty (July 07, 2010, 06:13 AM)
I think they just want to give away jQuery. Everyone knows Spain is going to win.-Deozaan (July 08, 2010, 08:31 PM)
Pricing constructs are based on demand, not on cost. Therefore, publishers price their products at the maximum that the market will bear, not on a "cost of materials plus markup" basis.
From that standpoint, digital media is a much cheaper option. CDs routinely cost $18-$20 until iTunes came along with a much cheaper model.
Similarly, most eBooks are much less expensive than their paper counterparts.
Users place value on the content, not on the delivery vehicle. Therefore, the value of the product is not determined by the cost to produce or distribute it, but instead by the value of the information.
Incidentally, this works the other way with physical media. Books will be sold on remainder to get rid of excess inventory, even if it means taking a loss on the book. Readers determined that the ideas in the book were worth less than the actual paper it cost to print them on. This reinforces the notion that price is not determined by inputs, but rather by value created.
This has also given rise to a much larger self-publishing universe, where individual authors and artists can control pricing and distribution in the ways that make the most sense for them. See eMusic, Cafepress, and Lulu for some examples.
There is also the complex art/science/whatever of pricing and valuing things. There is much evidence to suggest that lowering prices only works to incentivize purchasing and improve perceived value of your product *to a point*, after which it actually starts to make your product look bad and reduce its perceived value. People wonder "Why is it so cheap when it's always been expensive?" and maybe think "It must be poor quality.", etc. In some cases *increasing* the price will actually increase sales. "Rational actors" my ass...
- Oshyan-JavaJones (July 07, 2010, 11:59 AM)
thanks for the info... I think you have a point there.. so, those rogue sites aren't to be trusted?
-jeremejazz (June 30, 2010, 05:49 AM)
I specifically mentioned that this centralized platform would give higher royalties to the creator(s) due to leaving out (or rather, minimalizing) the middleman and all the dead-tree publishing costs.-Deozaan (July 06, 2010, 05:12 PM)
It costs less to produce, so you can still charge customers less while paying the author/artist/band more.-Deozaan (July 06, 2010, 05:12 PM)
Am I just asking too soon, and is it just a matter of time? Or is there something else holding everything back? Why aren't the big-name NYT best-selling authors doing something like this? Especially since they already have the fame to successfully migrate to the new system, bringing their fans along with them.-Deozaan (July 06, 2010, 05:12 PM)
I remember YEARS ago, when I was a kid, changing the channel meant turning the knob to the next position where a copper switch contact would make. It would be an instantaneous connection but then you had to adjust the "fine tuning" ring to get the picture in clearly.
I remember YEARS ago when I was a kid and changing the channel was INSTANTANEOUS! Turning now is like waiting for the next ice age.-Renegade (July 05, 2010, 02:27 PM)
And you HAD TO get up out of the chair and walk across the room to do it!-parkint (July 06, 2010, 04:47 PM)
No. That's still too expensive. $14 for a digital book? That's more than most Kindle books.-Deozaan (July 04, 2010, 07:45 PM)
How many people can actually set which DNS servers they connect to? That's 99.999% done by people's ISPs, who all in most likelihood use the 13 root servers.-Renegade (July 04, 2010, 04:33 PM)
any true apple fanboy will happily learn to perform the iPhone4 stance so they can still get reception. i've no idea what that looks like but i'm sure it's very "cool".-nudone (July 02, 2010, 08:19 AM)
The iphone pose, similar to Captain Morgan's! Oy. At some point, Apple users have to get pissed, right? Pissed enough to stop buying that junk?
(see attachment in previous post)-zridling (July 02, 2010, 07:47 PM)
