Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger for iPhone.
Hype Machine Radio for the iPhone.
Atari’s Greatest Hits brings 100 classic Atari games to your iPhone or iPad. There goes my weekend. [via]
People that do not like Apple’s subscription model: Readability, Rdio and Last.fm. The New York Times has a decent break down of Apple subscriptions and Google One Pass.
Apple came knocking on Tuesday with a plan that did not so much offer terms as dictate them in granting access to Apple’s vast installed base of consumers in the App Store and growing cadre of readers on the iPad. In return, publishers would give up 30 percent off the top, control over pricing of their digital product in other realms (no undercutting the Apple price) and their direct relationship with consumers. With its enviable tandem of products that everyone wants and a store where everyone buys, Apple believes it has the leverage to tell publishers: They are our customers. You can rent them, but they will remain in our custody.
On Readability, which is a service I love and I’m kind of pissed their app is not longer happening, John Gruber can’t see the difference between their 30% cut and Apple’s. While I understand that Apple can charge whatever they want — it’s their platform — it doesn’t mean they aren’t dicks to taking such a large cut. One thing to consider is that if you need to give Apple 30% to get anything into iOS, how long until that translates to the Mac App Store? If Microsoft had tried to take a 30% cut of software and content 10-15 years ago, people would have lost their collective shit. (This post from last week is very related, in case you missed it.)
UPDATE: Wired questions how the “Apple Tax” will be applied going forward and seems to have a quote from Jobs saying it’s for publishers, not SaaS apps. This obviously makes me wonder why Readability was rejected, since they are a service, not a publisher.
Apple’s subscription plans. I’m not sure how I feel about this yet.
Is Apple about to fuck up my ability to read Kindle and Kobo books on my iPad and iPhone? Looks like it.
Someone is suing Apple because iOS 4 turned my the iPhone 3G into a steaming pile of suck.
