I usually reserve my bile for the bit players in the blogoskleinbottle; but good lord this is a shitty article. There’s so much wrong with this piece of crap that I don’t know where to begin. In brief, the gist of the article is that somehow Apple is gypping users because they’re allowing developers to charge for iPhone applications. Yeah, let that one sink in a bit. I really don’t have the time to completely deconstruct this steaming turd; but here are a few choice bits.
So why can’t all iPhone apps be free? Well, quite simply, because people are still willing to pay for them. Apple currently generates most of its revenue from up-front sales – whether it’s for MacBooks, iTunes or iPhones. And the pay approach for mobile games, ringtones and videos has long been used by other tech purveyors like Verizon and Research In Motion, and even third-party app stores like Handango. “It is a historical business model,” notes Kevin Burden of ABI Research. Buyers are willing to pony up, though, because of the cachet of the Apple brand.
Jesus Christ on a pogo-stick, did I just read a quote from a “research” firm calling supply and
