Links for Tuesday February 22^nd, 2011

• 30%: Neven Mrgan more forcefully hits a point that I made yesterday:

  "I prefer the Apple that makes its money by creating great, high-end, high-margin products and selling them directly to consumers. I am less fond of an Apple that makes money by striking or demanding dubious business deals."

  (via Michael Tsai)

• Steve Jobs Email Suggests In-App Subscriptions Don't Apply to 'Software As a Service'?: ...so, maybe Dropbox is safe?

• Apple’s Full Employment for Data Entry Workers Act: Good point from Chris Adamson:

  "The problem is that to make something available for in-app purchase, you need to create an I-AP product for it in iTunes Connect. In this web interface, you enter a product ID, a description in whatever languages you want to support, and set a price. To get approved by apple, you also have to submit a screenshot of the purchased product in the application.

  Apparently, the web interface is the only way to create products.

  And if you’re thinking “that doesn’t scale”… well, yeah, that’s what we suddenly realized. If you’re Amazon, and you have 810,000 Kindle books, does Apple seriously expect you to submit all 810,000 of those, one at a time, and with screenshots, via the ITC web interface?"

  It's looking like Apple hasn't fully fleshed this thing out. (once again, via Michael Tsai)

• U-Verse almost a complete failure: I really wish there was a real, nation-wide, competitor to Comcast.

• The REAL Death Of The Music Industry: Interesting update from Michael DeGusta.