Google may introduce in-app purchasing to compete with Apple's model (Updated)

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Do Android folk even buy apps? Every Android user I know constantly brags about their ad-stuffed apps they paid nothing for.

In other Google news, Larry Page changes his name to Sleeve Jawbs, announces extended leave of absence yet hangs around office. "Copy Apple? That's nonsense. Everything we do here is original and innovative. We think different, you know," said Mr. Jawbs in an email to a customer.

Isn't this old news? Android in-app-purchases was announced two weeks ago:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/android-in-app/

that there is any kurfuffle over a 30% overhead is hilarious, because prior to Apple's entry, with a few exception of no-name things, everyone else was taking A LOT more than 30%.

Ever try and price out how much amazon used to charge for its overhead? 30% is a deal of deals. But even Amazon has relented to taking ONLY 30% now.

Google's business model is to remove any chain value... of course they have to react with a lower overhead because the product they offer is less than 1/3rd the value of the Apple or Amazon store front. Besides, Google's whole business model is to create places to put ads on your content. Creating a long term sustainable retail store front is not in their DNA, so it is typical for them to be the ones selling the merchandise out of the back of a truck pulled up to the gas station. 10% for that is fair.

To be in the prime place at the local hot spot takes a little extra cash, but it's worth it because you get actual consumers with money to buy things of value. 30% retail cut is VERY, VERY cheap.

Nobody would click the "subscribe" button in Hulu or in Netflix, even if they put one in there, anyway. Those services, like Amazon's are obvious large retailers of their own. But, let's run with the analogy here -- should Saks Fifth Avenue not get it's 70% cut of the materials sold from its retail floor? What if it's a Macy's item that Sak's sold to a Sak's customer in Sak's because Macy's wanted to make a wider market for the product by putting it into Saks traffic? Should Saks forgo any retail cut just because it has the "platform" that attracts buyers?

Google is the dollar store around the corner. Not the chain dollar store, but the weird one that has merchandise the chain dollar store liquidated for lack of movement. You know, the one that just came to the abandoned strip mall two blocks away from the Big Lots that just closed. That one. They can't leverage Macy's and Saks markups, but they can sell cheap knockoffs and make you feel like you got something for your buck.

It's not in app purchasing, which was announced a time ago, it's "Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content."

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/simple-way-for-publishers-to-manage.html