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Re:Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X by dunk010 on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @03:10PM (#1812541)
I'm pretty sure that apple will be offering big players a better revshare deal on account of their volume. I'm sure their respective legal departments will have their hands full in the coming months. I think what is more interesting is what will happen to new apps built on the app store which subsequently become big; apple will have no incentive to split the revenue more favourably when they already have lock-in.

Regardless, I'm a fan.

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Re:Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X by jonhendry on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @03:33PM (#1812649)
The big players have their own licensing systems, and have their own licensing deals with big customers. I don't see why they'd go through Apple. They don't need help with collecting payments, or file distribution, or bandwidth.
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Re:Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X by YooLi on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @04:36PM (#1812960)
No one really says they have to. As Jobs said it won't be the only way to get Apps. But smaller devs benefit greatly. You can go from 0 to collecting payments worldwide, having distribution, updates, a 'store' to display your product, etc. with very little work (in comparison to doing it all yourself).
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