Apple doesn’t belive in free stuff
It seems Apple is encouraging iPhone and iPod Touch developers to charge a small fee for there apps instead of giving them for free, AppleInsider has learned.
People familiar to the program initiated in March note that the individuals are being assigned a liaison or a “development partner”, who serves as a resource, offering advice and gathering feedback on plans for applications that later on will be submitted to the new App Store for approval.
Apple will allow developers to submit more than one version of their apps to the App Store, which will ship as a part of iPhone Software v2.0. For example if you want a full version it can be available at a cost, while a “lite” version would be available for trial download to encourage people to buy the full version.
Apple’s idea of charging a even a small fee is to most likely to pay the cost of the hosting, marketing and running of the App Store in exchange for 30 percent of the profits from each app sold through them, letting devs remain with the remaining 70 percent.
As always iPod Touch owners are expected to be charged for the upgrade unlike the iPhone owners are expected to get the update for free.
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