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Demand Side Economics

By Denis Pombriant on March 14, 2011

      Recently I wrote a couple of posts about Apple’s plan to charge vendors 30% of the transaction price for anything sold through the Apple Store (aka App Store).  For many things like software and songs I think this makes a lot of sense.  If you consider that the SG&A line of a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged apple, billing, CRM, economics, John Maynard Keynes, journalism, keynes, publishing, robber baron, Subscription billing, technology

Re-intermediation — Same as the Old Boss?

Re-intermediation — Same as the Old Boss?

By Denis Pombriant on March 8, 2011

Won’t get fooled again? I am watching a trend emerge.  I don’t know if it has a name yet so I will offer this — re-intermediation.  Most of us have been around the technology world in general and the Internet specifically to understand and remember its opposite, disintermediation.  Re-intermediation is a reversal of disintermediation — […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged App Store, apple, CRM, Subscription billing

Is the App Store Hamstrung by Its Billing System?

Is the App Store Hamstrung by Its Billing System?

By Denis Pombriant on March 8, 2011

A subscription service provider’s offering has three parts — the actual service-product, an infrastructure for delivering it and, for lack of a better word, value-add.  A provider may deliver all three as a single service but that’s not necessary. A common form of subscription is a car lease in which a customer buys the use […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, apple, appstore, Aria, CRM, Subscription billing, Subscription business model, Zuora | 2 Responses

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