Did you know that short of handing over your soul, Apple takes away almost all freedoms from app developers? The recently revealed details about the iPhone developer contract paint a very chilling image of how one-sided the deal can get. Apple also requires its developers to complete and utter secrecy (yes, we can imagine a black hooded organization lurking in the shadows now), which makes reading the contract feel like you are reading some sort of government spy guidelines.
Kidding aside, devs sign up for a pretty bad deal in order to produce apps for Apple –apps which go through an extremely stringent screening process before it is approved and would sell for prices that would require thousands of sales to pay back for the overhead.
In other news, it looks like Google is still going to be selling the Nexus One despite the device’s abysmal sales performance. Many already blame the fact that Google is using its online store as the exclusive channel for the device –it is said that had the device been available on retail, it would have sold significantly better.
At the same time, there are those who say that the decision to sell the device online was a smart move to keep Google’s industry partners happy. With HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and many other manufacturers currently making Android smart phones, it would be odd if Google’s Nexus One became a serious competitor.
It was originally estimated that the Google Nexus One would sell over 3 million units this year. Now, Google has set a more realistic notion of 1 million units –a goal they might not even meet given the current performance of the device.
News Source: http://www.mobileblog.mobile-deals-compared.co.uk
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