[nctime]

Also, Windows Phone seems to be the only one to allow IAPs without needing to pay the 30% cut.

See section 2.1.2 in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop...

They lay out rules like clarity in showing the product and the payment processor and having PCI-DSS which are good things to protect users.

However, this doesn't imply that they won't give in to greed and change the rules midway like Google did if Windows Phone becomes more popular.

[bennyg]

They had to though. You can't come in to an entrenched marketplace and play by the same rules as everyone else when you have 0 traction. They're trying to get any and all developers to start adding to the Windows Phone offerings.