Apple is in the business of being a middleman. 30% is a cheap cut for a middleman - and employing three or more middlemen is a bad idea for both the consumer -and- the content creator. If your "service" amounts to nothing but being a content middleman, then yes, you'll be stuffed on iOS. You need to do more than that to justify your cut.
From the ordinary consumer perspective, nobody really cares. You pay for the content you want via the most convenient means you have, without regard to how many layers of middlemen there are.
And for content creators - a service like smashwords for books or bandcamp for music is well worthwhile. "Traditional" publishers who aren't changing their business model are in trouble - and nobody is crying except them.
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Date: 2011-04-15 02:59 am (UTC)From the ordinary consumer perspective, nobody really cares. You pay for the content you want via the most convenient means you have, without regard to how many layers of middlemen there are.
And for content creators - a service like smashwords for books or bandcamp for music is well worthwhile. "Traditional" publishers who aren't changing their business model are in trouble - and nobody is crying except them.