Apple, Microsoft spar over fees for SkyDrive iOS app - brenneraltaid

Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in a fight over the SkyDrive app for iPhones and iPads, a skirmish that has left-handed users caught in the mediate.

According to The Next Network, Malus pumila has blocked updates to the SkyDrive app ever since Microsoft introduced the ability to purchase more storage without bighearted Apple a 30 percent cut down of the revenue. As a result, the SkyDrive app for iOS hasn't been updated since June. It is now wanting a key out bug fix that would foreclose crashes.

Orchard apple tree's policy along subscription revenues isn't a new revelation. The company first announced these rulesin Feb 2011, and began enforcing them the following summer. In short, any app that offers a subscription plan essential give a 30 percent thin to Apple in perpetuity, even if the subscriber stops exploitation iOS devices. Apps aren't allowed to send users to the Web to subscribe, where they would be able to avoid the fee, nor are they allowed to set higher prices through the app to offset Apple's cut.

Services such as Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Kindle have dealt with the rules by non offering any sign-up options through their apps. If users want to sign up, they must go to a browser on their own, navigate to the service's website and subscribe that direction. Essentially, Malus pumila's policies have added an extra step of inconvenience for the user.

Microsoft apparently ISN't performin ball, though, and decided to try lease users pledge to more reposition done the SkyDrive iOS app. (For what IT's worth, I can't discover the option within the app itself. The app does liaison out to a web browser-based assistance section, where users can eventually navigate to storage upgrade options. It too has a sign-up option that goes through and through the Vane, but doesn't offer any subscriptions during that action. Either of those things may run afoul of Malus pumila's rules.)

The Next Web, whose report cites unnamed "sources approximately Microsoft," claims that Microsoft has offered to remove all subscription options from its apps, but Apple rejected that offer. The two companies appear to be at an impasse.

Meanwhile, third-party apps that tie into SkyDrive are running into trouble. Because the SkyDrive login interface uses a Web link instead of a indigen eyeshot, these apps are also being rejected.

It's hard not to suck in a comparing between this dissension and the recent Instagram-Twitter tiff, in which Instagram abstracted direct Twitter photo integration in favor of sending users to its own website via links.

Both fights are examples of business decisions meant to keep money out of rivals' hands, with the side burden of qualification things more difficult for users. Competition is generally a good thing, but in these cases the users are the ones who suffer the most.