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A kerfuffle arose recently over the refund policy on the iTunes store for people who write programs for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Developers get 70% of the sale price, Apple keeps 30%. If you carefully or creatively misread the contract, it looks like, in the event that someone returns an app, Apple charges the developer 100% of the app price, thus raising the concept that a concentrated effort could result in huge charges against small developers.
If the contract is read further or if you actually talk to people who sell apps in the iTunes store, it immediately falls apart. Apple does a chargeback against the developer for the 70% that they received, the person returning the software gets 100% of what they paid, and Apple eats the credit card transaction fees.
So there's no real reason for a kerfuffle. But that didn't prevent lots of joyous rectal haberdashery on Slashdot, resulting in this truly brilliant post:
"After bricking unlocked iPhones, kicking applications off the iPhone store that might even slightly compete with iTunes in the far future, filing a wave of patents on basic well-known computer science and openly sodomising iPhone developers in the city square of Palo Alto, Apple Inc. today filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission declaring that it was openly adopting Evil(tm) as a corporate policy [today.com].
"Fuck it," said Steve Jobs to an audience of soul-mortgaged thralls, "we're evil. But our stuff is sooo good. You'll keep taking our abuse. You love it, you worm. Because our stuff is great. It's shiny and it's pretty and it's cool and it works. It's not like you'll go back to a Windows Mobile phone. Ha! Ha!"
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft was incensed at the news. "Our evil is better than anyone's evil! No-one sweats the details of evil like Microsoft! Where's your antitrust trial, you polo-necked bozo? We've worked hard on our evil! Our Zune's as evil as an iPod any day! I won't let my kids use a lesser evil! We're going to do an ad about that! I'll be in it! With Jerry Seinfeld! Beat that! Asshole."
"Of course, we're still not evil," said Sergey Brin of Google. "You can trust us on this. Every bit of data about you, your life and the house you live in is strictly a secret between you and our marketing department. But, hypothetically, if we were evil, it's not like you're going to use Windows Live Search. Ha! Ha! I'm sorry, that's my 'spreading good cheer' laugh. Really.""
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/28/0143249&art_pos=4
A kerfuffle arose recently over the refund policy on the iTunes store for people who write programs for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Developers get 70% of the sale price, Apple keeps 30%. If you carefully or creatively misread the contract, it looks like, in the event that someone returns an app, Apple charges the developer 100% of the app price, thus raising the concept that a concentrated effort could result in huge charges against small developers.
If the contract is read further or if you actually talk to people who sell apps in the iTunes store, it immediately falls apart. Apple does a chargeback against the developer for the 70% that they received, the person returning the software gets 100% of what they paid, and Apple eats the credit card transaction fees.
So there's no real reason for a kerfuffle. But that didn't prevent lots of joyous rectal haberdashery on Slashdot, resulting in this truly brilliant post:
"After bricking unlocked iPhones, kicking applications off the iPhone store that might even slightly compete with iTunes in the far future, filing a wave of patents on basic well-known computer science and openly sodomising iPhone developers in the city square of Palo Alto, Apple Inc. today filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission declaring that it was openly adopting Evil(tm) as a corporate policy [today.com].
"Fuck it," said Steve Jobs to an audience of soul-mortgaged thralls, "we're evil. But our stuff is sooo good. You'll keep taking our abuse. You love it, you worm. Because our stuff is great. It's shiny and it's pretty and it's cool and it works. It's not like you'll go back to a Windows Mobile phone. Ha! Ha!"
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft was incensed at the news. "Our evil is better than anyone's evil! No-one sweats the details of evil like Microsoft! Where's your antitrust trial, you polo-necked bozo? We've worked hard on our evil! Our Zune's as evil as an iPod any day! I won't let my kids use a lesser evil! We're going to do an ad about that! I'll be in it! With Jerry Seinfeld! Beat that! Asshole."
"Of course, we're still not evil," said Sergey Brin of Google. "You can trust us on this. Every bit of data about you, your life and the house you live in is strictly a secret between you and our marketing department. But, hypothetically, if we were evil, it's not like you're going to use Windows Live Search. Ha! Ha! I'm sorry, that's my 'spreading good cheer' laugh. Really.""
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/28/0143249&art_pos=4
