Re: So how is Apple supposed to pay for the App Store
There's plenty of ways for Apple to monitize this. Why don't they just charge the app makers for bandwidth used by end users downloading their apps ?
If the app maker is marketing their apps well then paying Apple for bandwidth is a small cost of doing business and trust me the sort of connections and caching that Apple is using the per GB cost is fractions of a cent.
Apple could also take the in app payment processing fees down to a reasonable level. If Apple is going to charge me 30% to handle payments I'll probably look elsewhere. If Apple are going to charge me 6% and a bank are going to charge me setup fees plus 5% I'd probably stick with Apple until the 1% difference was a sizable amount (the tipping point for most businesses is in the tens to hundreds of thousands).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
