{"id":3139,"date":"2011-03-03T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2011-03-03T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:58:09","slug":"trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, I think we’re all just repeating the same<\/a> points<\/a>, but Marco Arment<\/a> has a well-written post on the bait-and-switch:<\/p>\n

The root cause for so much of the subscription ruckus, I think, isn’t that 30% number — it’s that Apple pulled the rug out from under some major apps after the fact. And unlike nearly every App Store rule change in the past, this is a major change that developers couldn’t have been reasonably expected to anticipate, and it’s not based in any practical need for the health of the Store or the platform (malware, abuse, etc.).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Though I’d quibble with the “nearly every” part.) Remember that this “major change” is what Apple’s spokesperson<\/a> claimed was not actually a change.<\/p>\n

And Jim Dovey<\/a> runs the numbers on his business:<\/p>\n

Switching from what I had before to Apple’s 30% fee has taken me from a $90’000 profit to a loss of over $2 million.<\/em> And if I make more sales, it doesn’t help—only my net loss increases.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now, I think we’re all just repeating the same points, but Marco Arment has a well-written post on the bait-and-switch: The root cause for so much of the subscription ruckus, I think, isn’t that 30% number — it’s that Apple pulled the rug out from under some major apps after the fact. And unlike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}