{"id":8787,"date":"2010-08-24T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/of_course_apple_will_take_the_30.html"},"modified":"2010-08-24T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:59:18","slug":"of-course-apple-will-take-the-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/of-course-apple-will-take-the-30.html","title":{"rendered":"Of Course Apple Will Take the 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has two choices going forward &#8211; focus on platforms such as the <span scaytid=\"1\" scayt_word=\"iMac\">iMac<\/span> which are open and allow customers to run things like Flash games or close it all up and force users to use the <span scaytid=\"2\" scayt_word=\"App\">App<\/span> Store and pick up 30% on each sale and in-app purchase. Sure the company has to host massive data centers to deal with all the <span scaytid=\"3\" scayt_word=\"app\">app<\/span> downloading and upgrades but any sane person would do whatever it takes to move the entire company to <span scaytid=\"6\" scayt_word=\"iOS\">iOS<\/span> as fast as possible and start raking in massive amounts of dough.<\/p>\n<p>What was that sound you just heard? Oh, about a dozen Adobe execs jumping off the rooftop of their San Jose <span scaytid=\"7\" scayt_word=\"HQ\">HQ<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a _cke_saved_href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/innovation\/08\/24\/apple.imac.touch\/index.html?hpt=T2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/innovation\/08\/24\/apple.imac.touch\/index.html?hpt=T2\">details<\/a> of the <span scaytid=\"8\" scayt_word=\"iPad\">iPad<\/span> desktop patent <span scaytid=\"4\" scayt_word=\"app\">app<\/span> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has two choices going forward &#8211; focus on platforms such as the iMac which are open and allow customers to run things like Flash games or close it all up and force users to use the App Store and pick up 30% on each sale and in-app purchase. Sure the company has to host<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,181,172,162,196,163,198,213,118,174,190,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}