>Essentially all of the major innovation on the hardware side is done and the software side will be where people choose their phone/tablet.
>I submit that Apple needs to drop the commission rate for apps sales from 30% to some value approaching zero. This will starve Android/Win8/BB of developer mind share.
Main source of Google's revenue is advertisement, main source of Apple's revenue is hardware sales. If both hardware sales and marketplace commissions will be lowered then it would be improvement rather for Google than Apple.
>I submit that Apple needs to drop the commission rate for apps sales from 30% to some value approaching zero. This will starve Android/Win8/BB of developer mind share.
Main source of Google's revenue is advertisement, main source of Apple's revenue is hardware sales. If both hardware sales and marketplace commissions will be lowered then it would be improvement rather for Google than Apple.