App Store Subscriptions
Apple announced that they want a part of the subscription business on iPads and other iDevices. The downside is they want 30%. Forever. This seems too high to me. Apple provides a lot of valuable customers to new and existing platforms and they should be compensated for those leads however, 30% for subscription revenue infinitum is impossibly hard for most subscription services.
A more reasonable solution would be 30% of the first two subscription payments and then (essentially) a payment processing fee around 10% thereafter.
Apple removes Wi-Fi finders from App Store
Why? Because they were using private APIs. That is a violation of the usage agreement. Considering an OS update is coming soon Apple is probably cleaning up the store of apps that use depreciated APIs so customers can have a better experience. All of this complaining about how Apple is screwing developers and censoring is overstated. If you want to develop for the App store then follow the rules. If you want to ride the line (like the soft porn apps) then you are taking a risk of being cut off. If you are using unauthorized private APIs then you have no excuse.
