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Microsoft says it will take a 30 per cent cut from Windows 8 app store
SOFTWARE REDEVELOPER Microsoft has revealed that it will initially take a 30 per cent cut of revenues from sales at the Windows 8 app store.
Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system will feature an app store for 'Metro style' applications, and the company is giving out some details to whet developers' appetites. Microsoft said that after an initial $49 registration fee for independent develoeprs, it will take a 30 per cent cut of revenues, the same as Apple, but that it will reduce its cut to 20 per cent once an application reaches $25,000 in revenue. For software development firms the registration fee will be set at $99.
Microsoft knows it is some way behind in the app store game compared to Apple and Google and tried to play on claims that there are 1.25 billion Windows users, implying that it should be easier to make big bucks through its app store. The only problem is that it didn't say how many of those 1.25 billion will actually be running Windows 8 and have access to the app store.
While Apple's App Store has a reputation for strict censorship, Microsoft claimed its shop window will be transparent, stating, "We want to increase predictability and eliminate any capriciousness in app certification." It continued, "Our app certification policies are now published, and are organized around just a few, clear precepts. We designed the policies to help ensure quality and predictability in core app behaviors while enabling innovation and differentiation in app experiences."
Microsoft also told developers that they will be able to use non-Microsoft advertising software should they so wish.
Once Microsoft releases the Windows 8 beta there will be free applications on the Windows 8 app store, and the firm said paid applications will appear only after it releases the final version of Windows 8.
Developers are unlikely to overlook Microsoft's Windows 8 app store, simply because of the sizeable audience it is likely to have. Although Microsoft's 1.25bn figure is hyperbole, there's no doubt that Microsoft will shift millions of copies of Windows 8, and for developers that size audience is not to be sniffed at. µ
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No one running Windows 7, and that means NO ONE, needs windows 8. It's redundant. Since it is redundant no one, and that means NO ONE, should buy Windows 8, they should buy Windows 7 instead.
As far as an app store goes. The app store really has only one purpose and that's to get silverlight-like apps built so that microsoft can offer them to their phone users. The app market for win mobile 7 is bare, as it should be. Win mobile 7 is going no where because customers have better markets and products to choose from.
As part of Microsoft's patent extortion scheme one of the main ingredients is to have these tablet and phone makers agree to licensing deals for Win mobile 7. The point I'm making is that their phone is going no where and they have admitted as much. In order to get into that field they are pushing their product development for the device through the app store for windows 8.
There are no features that are demanding enough to push consumers to purchase an upgrade from XP or Win7 to 8.
I think the world would be better served with Android for X86 and AMD64 where they have access to half a billion apps from an app store that has already served 10 billion apps.
30% off the top means a product has to be priced 143% of what the developer intends in order for the developer to get that much money.
A 43% markup is far higher than most retail stores. And they told us digital distribution would be cheaper - no inventory issues, no space issues, no overhead.
My ass!
Thanks for supporting android microsoft.
It's nice to see a company keeping the concept of competition in the marketplace alive.
SUCH A GOOD IDEA. BECAUSE IT SERVES CUSTOMERS DESIRE FOR CONVENIENCE AND SELECTION! BUT IMPLEMENTATION IS ATROCIOUS (THINKING XBOX LIVE). WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE A BROWSING CUSTOMER AND PUSH THEM OUT YOUR DOOR, AND BAR THEM PRETTY MUCH FOREVER, UNTIL THEY TALK TO YOUR DISINTERESTED CLERKS, AND PLEAD FOR MERCY AGAINST THE OBSCENE & UNFAIR ACCESS FEES THEY HAD BEEN CHARGED? WELL PEOPLE DONT WANT TO SOLICIT THAT STORE, DUMMY. YOU CAN TELL, NOBODY AT MICROSOFT XBOX EVER WORKED AT A STORE BEFORE. SO WHILE THE APP STORE IS AN EXCELLENT IDEA, I CAN PREDICT THE MS IMPLEMENTATION WILL GET GREEDY AND VICIOUS AND DEVELOP A MISERABLE REPUTATION AND HOPEFULLY GO BANKRUPT. I WOULD PREFER TO SEE A LINUX STORE INSTEAD, PREFERABLY ONE NOT RUN BY A MULTI-BILLIONAIRE WONDER OF THE WORLD THAT IS ON THE VERGE OF LEARNING (LIKE MICROSOFT) HOW TO BECOME SUPER GREEDY.
That's too high. Do they think they're Apple?
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