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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by 0942v8653 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @06:44AM (#8879178)
What does download.com have to do with this? Anyone in their right mind will figure out that it's terrible. I don't think the App Store really competes with download.com. It competes with independent websites that use PayPal downloads and license keys. Download.com, macUpdate, softpedia, download.cnet.com, and the like don't give anyone an excuse to lock down their platform this tight. The cure is worse than the disease. If there are fifty green download buttons on a site, which button are you going to click? Hopefully the red X in the top corner.
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by pjc50 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:36AM (#8879341)
independent websites that use PayPal downloads and license keys

As of 1 Jan this is now economically infeasible in the EU (see "VATMOSS").

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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by detaro on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:25AM (#8880368)
Using the number given in the Pinegrow thread today: It is economically infeasible to pay your payment processor 5 percent instead of 3? It's annoying, sure, but infeasible?
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by pjc50 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:14AM (#8880696)
Specifically you can't use paypal. As they say on the BBC, other payment processors are available and you have to get one that will handle the VAT for you.
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by detaro on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:15PM (#8881545)
You can still offer Paypal via another payment processor.
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by walterbell on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:59AM (#8880202)
How about using a provider like Fastspring? Or are their fees too high?
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by pjc50 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:12AM (#8880294)
They certainly claim to handle it; I can't really speak as to whether their fees are too high, but it's higher than paypal.
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by snlacks on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:01AM (#8879231)
I think the reason this really is a surprise* is because they claim these are the top downloaded apps.

*edit: Wish it were a surprise.

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