Apple Debuts App Store Volume Purchase Program for Educational Institutions
The Volume Purchase Program makes it easy for educational institutions to purchase iOS apps in volume and distribute those apps to users. The Volume Purchase Program also allows app developers to offer special pricing for purchases of 20 apps or more.
Volume purchasing is accomplished via vouchers available through the Apple Store for Education in $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 denominations. The vouchers can be purchased by authorized educational purchasing representatives and are sent by regular mail. Vouchers can then be distributed to "Program Facilitators" for redemption in the App Store.Full information on the program is available in an FAQ, with the company also offering a direct Volume Purchase Program portal to allow authorized educational users to log in and redeem their vouchers.
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Such is the closed nature of the app store that Apple actually has to give permission for something OS X developers have been doing on their own for over 25 years.
How generous of Apple to allow developers to offer educational/bulk discounts.
Such is the closed nature of the app store that Apple actually has to give permission for something OS X developers have been doing on their own for over 25 years.
Awesome, so you would rather have a bazaar which is completely unusable by the average non-nerd? How would you weed out malware and spyware? How would the end user be notified of updates to the apps they purchased? How would the end user manage their app collection?
Seems to work for Macs and OS X... so YES! I'd rather have the restrictive app store be opt in rather than have no choice to opt out.
Such is the closed nature of the app store that Apple actually has to give permission for something OS X developers have been doing on their own for over 25 years.
Considering OS X is about 10 years old, I wonder how developers managed that.
--Eric
Considering OS X is about 10 years old, I wonder how developers managed that.
--Eric
Come on dude, he meant mac devs.
Seems to work for Macs and OS X... so YES! I'd rather have the restrictive app store be opt in rather than have no choice to opt out.
Right and those are full fledged computer that might or might not run on battery and keeping your third party apps up to date is a nightmare right now. Macupdate does have a third party desktop client but most end users are not aware of it.Also, macs have up to now been lucky that there have been no major malware outbreaks but the danger does exist and so some people run anti-virus on their macs. Do you want people to be forced to run anti-virus on their iphones and iPads too? That would suck up the battery life and bog down the devices.
I suggest that you stick with windows if you are a masochist as you seem to be.
How generous of Apple to allow developers to offer educational/bulk discounts.
Such is the closed nature of the app store that Apple actually has to give permission for something OS X developers have been doing on their own for over 25 years.
The genius of the AppStore is in taking care of a lot of the work that developers had to do just so that they could distribute their creations.
For 25 years you had to keep promoting your stuff in the right places, maybe you hired a salesforce if you wanted to get into educational institutions, or worst, you gave up a big chunk of the revenue to someone who had. Then you wasted time and resources qualifying your volume buyers. And finally, you had to provide your big buyers with 30 or more days credit, then hope you would be paid on time.
Now, any lone app developer in his/her attic has the same or better marketing reach. :cool:
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