Friday, March 28, 2014

Microsoft Is Selling Office 365 Within iPad Apps, and Apple Is Getting Its 30 Percent Cut | Re/code

Clarification to earlier post: if you purchase an Office 365 from an iOS Office app, Apple does get a 30% cut (if you already have an Office 365 subscription or purchase one outside the iOS Office apps, I assume Apple doesn't get a cut)

"Indeed, Microsoft does offer Office 365 subscriptions within the just-released Word for iPad and the other Office apps and, yes, it is paying the 30 percent cut, Apple confirmed to Re/code. Microsoft declined to comment on the matter.

Apple has taken a hard line with all manner of publishers that want to sell things, even subscriptions that go well beyond the iPad content: If anything is sold in the app, the sellers have to use Apple’s method and hand over 30 percent."
Microsoft Is Selling Office 365 Within iPad Apps, and Apple Is Getting Its 30 Percent Cut | Re/code

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