Adobe angers iOS developers with 10% Director charge

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By Dave Stevenson - Posted on 14 Feb 2013 - pcpro

Adobe has angered its community of app developers with the terms and conditions attached to its Director 12 software.

The software, which is used to create apps for Apple's App Store, will now cost developers 10% of their earnings on any app which makes more than $20,000 (around £13,000).

The charge only applies to apps which make the watershed amount after Apple has taken its 30% fee per app. This means an app will actually have to make $26,000 before Adobe's charges apply.

The move has angered software developers, some of whom note that Adobe’s 10% charge comes on top of the price of buying Adobe Director, whose full version for Mac and PC cost just over £900 each. Posting on Adobe Director’s discussion forum, one user described the change as "preposterous", adding, "I will never agree to this."

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/379903/adobe-angers-ios-developers-with-10-director-charge

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5069522

[µT6]

that is what you get for develop apps for a closed expensive os

[jaydot]

those shysters will gouge everybody any which way they can.  boycott the swine.

[Just17]

Apple gets 30% for hosting the app ......  doesn't seem unreasonable taking that into consideration that Adobe should get 10% for providing the tools to create the app ....... I wonder if there is another middleman somewhere that could get another 10% or 20% ......  obviously the app creators are getting too much at 60% of the sale price!

[µT6]

this is why ios is better than android 

[The Chief]

The software, which is used to create apps for Apple's App Store, will now cost developers 10% of their earnings on any app which makes more than $20,000 (around £13,000).

Well, then, shouldn't the software itself be a free download?   Or do they plan on charging you for the privilege of making money for them?

[µT6]

the second sounds more logical, coming from adobe i think