There are a lot of free Apps that have extensive revenue streams for both the developer and Apple.
option 1: Develop free version that has limited functionality and offer in App upgrade to paid version with full functionality. Both Apple and developer get a cut of all upgrades.
Option 2: Develop free version that is Ad supported utilizing Apples iAd service. Every use of app makes money for both developer and Apple.
Option 3: Offer free version of App that has ability to purchase "stuff" in App. This is allowed within the context of Apples agreement and again, both developer and Apple will make money off of this. The Kindle, Sony Reader, and other eReader apps are/will be an example fo this. The apps are free, purchase of the books in App will net Apple 30% of the purchase price.

They aren't doing it to spite Jobs.
They are doing it to prevent the license they released their code under from being changed and co-opted illegally.

Don't like it?
You do have options.
Just not the easy "i want it my way" option that co-opts the license.

Good thing you're posting as AC.
It seems fitting.
Especially one of the words.

which is most likely due to the assertion that those developing apps probably don't even look at the license their using and would therefore potentially cause problems, just like the VLC issue was a problem for Apple.

Rather than have to scrutinize each app that would contain Open Source code to determine which License is being used or rely on notoriously unreliable developers to follow rules on which OS licenses were acceptable, and thus open themselves to lawsuits/etc, they took the step of saying "not in our store" to prevent future legal problems.

seems harsh, but also seem rather smart.

Limiting your liability is one of the biggest issues most modern coporations face on a day to day basis.

yes, the person who spends $40k a year and pays an average of X% of sales tax (based on exempt and non-exempt items purchased) will pay more than the person who spends $100k a year and most likely has a a higher average tax rate because they purchase MORE of the non-exempt items (you know, more luxury items and fewer food items per dollar spent).
Oh wait.

sales tax is a set percentage.
every one pays the same percentage on non-exempt items.
if you want to argue that "poor people" spend a larger percentage of their total income than "rich people" then you may have a point (depending on your definition of rich).

Personally, I would wonder how Amazon is supposed to forward the sales tax amount to the state since they did not collect it in the first place?
So in reality, I have no sympathy for the State of Texas as they are trying to retroactively collect taxes that were never collected in the first place.
If they need the money, they need to start on a date and allow Amazon to charge the tax to customers as necessary so it can be collected and then forwarded.

Exactly where we need to be to unleash mecha-godzilla of course.

actually it was a manga first, but i came here wondering if i would be the only one to point out the obvious similarities.

Now if only they get the all important headband right......

until that purchased contents DRM system is deprecated and you're left with a bunch of useless files you can no longer play.

or worse yet, your wonderful files are only viable to be played on one device which is no longer manufactured or available because the company "moved on" and you have this fancy new player that you would LOVE to use, however it doesn't support your old files DRM so you get to rebuy them all over again.
YAY!

Remember, the studios say they aren't selling you a copy of the media, they are selling you a license to play that media in a very specific way.

because that is really whats missing from the android app store. all those "awesome"iOS apps that a single developer makes 30 copies of and spams the market with.

yes, but do all service providers offer tiers of service SLOWER than the highest speed netflix streaming offers?

DSL providers = yes.
Cable providers may not = yes (my local cableco's lowest offering is 12mbps)
wireless carries = yes.

so it is in fact, a POSSIBLE poor metric to use.

except that again, people want to look only at overall country-wide population density, which is a poor metric for a case like broadband.
instead they should be looking at the distribution of people and the population density within that distribution area.

if i have a 100 square mile country, with 100 people in it, overall population density says that i have 1 person per square mile.
reality might be very different if instead i see that all 100 of those people live within the same 1 square mile and the other 99 square miles of the country are completely empty.

this example would make it very easy to provide "uber high speed" network access to those 100 people and yet look like the country has really low population density when placed on one of those nifty "comparison" charts.
And then there would be people using my little fake country to "prove" that the US is "far behind" the rest of the world in broadband adoption and speed.

it would all be bullshit, but people would spew idiocy like they do now anyway.

yeah, i bet it was real hard to keep that train going for less than a year.......

come back when he's had to do it for 3 or 4 years and see where the company is.

I'm not saying he can't, but I am saying the time he was "the head" was so short as to not be statistically relevant.

except that creating a browser that can PLAY h264 video doesn't mean you have to pay the licensing fees.

The fees are paid by the content CREATORS.

The world is full of conservatives/religious people/workers/puritans/humanists who live by their beliefs. You usually don't hear them in the media because they're too busy living off a worker's wage, possibly playing a part in a local union, looking after people in the family and community or church, etc. to have the money to make their voice sufficiently loud.

you can easily move very large ships from ocean to ocean via a piggyback ship.

in fact, there are ships designed for this very purpose, and moving a large sailing yacht is one of their main customers.

these specialized ships take on ballast and essentially purposefully flood their own decks and then the large sailing/motor yachts are driven over the deck, pilings are set to support them, and the ship pumps out the ballast to raise itself above the waterline.

why?

because its a lot cheaper to pay for one large transport to move from continent to continent than it is a whole bunch of little ones that require not only propulsion but electrical power as well.