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RIMs Latest Apple Apps Won't Catch on Well: Here's Why

"Unless Apple is also a bank, they have to pay somebody a fee to process the credit/debit card purchases from their site. An equally feasible theory is that Blackberry negotiated a lower fee relationship with PayPal than Apple has with its processor."

Apple has an efficient and low cost method for collecting small payments. Part of this stems from its licensing use of patents from Amazon.com Furthermore, the method has been tested more than a few times.

I agree that Paypal will present RIMM with a lower cost than available from "standard" card processors. Most of the sites that I use and offer Paypal services appear to offer alternative means of payment. I seems that many folks, I for one, just do not wish to register their details with Paypal or alternative payment aggregators.

Thank goodness that RIMM choose not to emulate Microsoft with its "Points"

RIMs Latest Apple Apps Won't Catch on Well: Here's Why

In reply to Wil.

Indeed iTunes is there when you plug in.

In my case, I tend to use iTunes to manage existing Apps - do all the updates in a single process and to select which programs I wish to see as available on my iPhone screen. However, I tend to find, select, purchase, download and install new programs from the iPhone device App Store.

I doubt that all of these comparisons will influence the market at least until the results play out. After all, App World is the same as App Store - isn't it?

RIMs Latest Apple Apps Won't Catch on Well: Here's Why

My Mum always told me not to copy others but to do what was right for me.

All of the iPhone imitators are falling into the Apple trap by increasingly emulating and adding features that are barely "good enough" The end result of this is a platform that becomes increasingly not good enough.

I like your comment "with so many mouths to feed" It appears to me that RIM is also using a third party for hosting and secure delivery/re-delivery of the programs and updates. The economics seem to be leading towards App World becoming a promotional expense.