Lets take Hulu for example, who currently has a subscription model of $8.00 a month. Now if a users decides to subscribe to Hulu through an iOS app the price of the subscription is the same for the user. But for Hulu instead of collecting $8.00, they are now collecting $5.60, since 30% is now going to apple, because that person used an iOS device. So it is a tax on both the app publisher and the consumer.
Apple's new term of service states: "All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app". For the app maker, the quickest way to compensate for a 30% Apple tariff is to raise the price by at least 30%, which hurts the app maker and the consumer. Even before this announcement the app market as we know it today, is on it's way out. In favor of creating a browser based mobile web app. With this new tax, I believe the adoption rate to create browser based mobile web apps will continue forward at full throttle so app makers and consumers are not losing 30% of subscriptions and content purchases to apple.
This has happened before, in 2000 every one was directing you to their myspace page. In the mid 90's it was a AOL keyword, late 90's is was their website. Next will be twitter.
I was looking into Cloud servers recently. I think I will be going going with 1and1 Dynamic Cloud Server. 1and1 seem to have a better price than Rackspace, and you can change the Ram, CPU, and storage all independently. At Rackspace you had to scale both the Ram and your Disk space. How is your experience with Rackspace? Has any one else tried 1and1's Dynamic Cloud server?