<story><title>Apple&apos;s Indies</title><url>http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/6/23/apples-indies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>This is pretty ridiculous. There&amp;#x27;s very little comparison.&lt;p&gt;1. Apple didn&amp;#x27;t respond to a letter from Taylor swift in &amp;lt; 24 hours - this had been building for a week or two as large indie labels made their opinions public and let&amp;#x27;s not forget it&amp;#x27;s rumoured that Apple was having difficulty signing any indie labels. I would be shocked if Apple hadn&amp;#x27;t been considering this for weeks already.&lt;p&gt;2. App devs - of which I am one - get a decent deal. It&amp;#x27;s simple, clear cut, and quite high especially when compared with how things are in brick and mortar stores.&lt;p&gt;3. There is no comparison here anyway. When Apple TELLS developers that you can only have your apps on the store if you give up 3 months of revenue then there is one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s nonsensical to compare to brick-and-mortar stores. We didn&amp;#x27;t go from brick-and-mortar to the App Store. We went from direct internet sales, where we got to build whatever we wanted, ship updates instantaneously, and keep 98% of the revenue, to the App Store.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple&apos;s Indies</title><url>http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/6/23/apples-indies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>This is pretty ridiculous. There&amp;#x27;s very little comparison.&lt;p&gt;1. Apple didn&amp;#x27;t respond to a letter from Taylor swift in &amp;lt; 24 hours - this had been building for a week or two as large indie labels made their opinions public and let&amp;#x27;s not forget it&amp;#x27;s rumoured that Apple was having difficulty signing any indie labels. I would be shocked if Apple hadn&amp;#x27;t been considering this for weeks already.&lt;p&gt;2. App devs - of which I am one - get a decent deal. It&amp;#x27;s simple, clear cut, and quite high especially when compared with how things are in brick and mortar stores.&lt;p&gt;3. There is no comparison here anyway. When Apple TELLS developers that you can only have your apps on the store if you give up 3 months of revenue then there is one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hahainternet</author><text>1. Apple explicitly responded directly to Taylor Swift.&lt;p&gt;2. App devs get a decent deal, but restrictions like taking a cut of all purchases done through an app are very distasteful.</text></comment>