> We were talking about the web. If there's a risk of webapps becoming competitive with native applications on the basis of that 30%, Apple is free to lower it.
How much you want to bet when that happens, Apple will release an update for iOS that cripples Safari and takes away some functionality in order to force developers to write native applications.
> I'm not sure what you're basing this on; Android is a rapidly growing portion of our media clients' in-app purchase business.
When you mentioned competition I just assumed you meant developers abandoning iOS and developing exclusively for Android (thus making customers want an Android device more and drive market share away from iPhone). I didn't think the competition you were thinking of was more and more web apps coming up to circumnavigate the 30% cut.
How much you want to bet when that happens, Apple will release an update for iOS that cripples Safari and takes away some functionality in order to force developers to write native applications.
> I'm not sure what you're basing this on; Android is a rapidly growing portion of our media clients' in-app purchase business.
When you mentioned competition I just assumed you meant developers abandoning iOS and developing exclusively for Android (thus making customers want an Android device more and drive market share away from iPhone). I didn't think the competition you were thinking of was more and more web apps coming up to circumnavigate the 30% cut.