“Similar to the iPhone store, the App Store for Mac puts Apple in the position of retailer, taking a 30 percent cut of sales,” Fried reports. ‘”‘It’s something we are looking at,’ Microsoft’s Amanda Lefebvre told Mobilized.”
Fried reports, “In its absence, visitors to the App Store are given prominent options to buy Apple’s rival iWork components–Pages, Keynote and Numbers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: In this case, the late bird gets all the worms.
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For real number crunching nothing beats Excel. Numbers is OK for personnel home use, but professionals use Excel, end of story!
What is the wholesale price of Mac Office 2011 anyway? Based on the education discount, I’m betting that the wholesale cost is at least than 30% below retail. So Microsoft can sell the package through the Mac App Store at or close to retail, make just as much as wholesale, and not have to worry about pressing CDs, packaging, or shipping.
In fact, Microsoft could also close a few stores and reduce overhead even further!
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