You don’t get rich by spending your money, and you get really rich by holding onto it for as long as possible. We’ve all been in that boat–not wanting to write a cheque, or getting getting extremely pissed off when clients hold out on you. A person’s integrity can be measured on those principles. If they’re constantly stiffing you with unpaid invoices, there’s a good chance you’ll never do business with them. It’s not rocket science, and it’s certainly something discussed ad nauseum in first year business school classes. Go out of your way to be accommodating and everyone will love you, repeat business will flow in, and hopefully you pick up some new clients through referrals.
How many iPhone developers are going to be telling their friends about a system that holds out on payments? Probably all of them, but not in a way that Apple needs them to. When a “developer, who wishes to remain nameless for fear that they could be kicked off the developer program for speaking out, told me that while Apple was “œquick to take the $99 developer fee,” getting paid “œfeels increasingly unlikely” you have a problem (Zdnet). Sure the developer could be trying to put pressure on Apple to pay up by using the media, but lets be real here, anything longer than the 45 day waiting period that Apple Inc. has in place is unacceptable. I wonder how they would feel if developers withheld their developer fees, or more importantly Apple’s 30 percent cut. You’d see that application yanked from the AppStore quicker then Apple’s legal team can put together a DMCA take down notice–we all know just how good they are at that.
Unless there’s a little more quid pro quo, and a lot less douchebaggery on Apple’s part, there’s a good chance developers will start to sour on the whole experience. It’s one thing to brag about the billions and billions of dollars sitting in the bank, but if you can’t pay your bills it doesn’t matter how much money you have.
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