Comments on: Microsoft-Apple flap over App Store fees reportedly about Office for iOS http://gigaom.com/2012/12/11/microsoft-apple-flap-over-app-store-fees-reportedly-about-office-for-ios/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:12:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: azurati http://gigaom.com/2012/12/11/microsoft-apple-flap-over-app-store-fees-reportedly-about-office-for-ios/#comment-1301672 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:46:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=593311#comment-1301672 The dispute between Microsoft and Apple has serious consequences for App developers who publish ‘free’ apps in the App Store, only to then charge users to activate the app or to upgrade to a version with better functionality.

As Microsoft seems to be at odds with Apple’s stance that all in-app purchases should require a 30% payment to Apple (in perpetuity), will this force app developers to develop HTML5 web apps to by-pass app stores?

This blog article looks at this in more detail: http://tinyurl.com/awgmapw

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]]> By: Rodney Willis http://gigaom.com/2012/12/11/microsoft-apple-flap-over-app-store-fees-reportedly-about-office-for-ios/#comment-1247580 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:39:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=593311#comment-1247580 Microsoft should drop their own 30% cut for apps launched on their mobile and Windows 8 stores if they wish to make a good argument to not pay it to another vendor. That said, I find Apple’s 30% cut distasteful as well.

]]> By: greatartiststeals http://gigaom.com/2012/12/11/microsoft-apple-flap-over-app-store-fees-reportedly-about-office-for-ios/#comment-1247519 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:17:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=593311#comment-1247519 Whether Apple cares or not, MS Office is the defacto standard in the industry…if MSFT ultimately chooses not to bring MSFT to the iPad, it only makes the iPad less desirable to a large group of users who need Office. As popular as the iPad is, the other pads will catch up and once they do, the 30% premium to be on the iPad becomes less appealing to the developer community…

]]> By: Matt Eagar http://gigaom.com/2012/12/11/microsoft-apple-flap-over-app-store-fees-reportedly-about-office-for-ios/#comment-1245904 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:40:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=593311#comment-1245904 Not 100% of all subscriptions pay Apple royalties. For example, I have several print magazine subscriptions that I have activated on iPad, and there are services like Dropbox which offer free apps and don’t pay Apple a cut of the revenues they bring in from outside of iTunes. I can see how Microsoft would feel slighted.

That said, there are already several decent iOS apps (some dating back to the original App Store debut in 2009) that allow creation and editing of documents in MS Office formats, so Apple probably doesn’t feel too compelled to give Microsoft any relief here. Maybe if Microsoft were not so insanely late to the party, they might have some negotiating power.

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