Something else which can’t be overlooked.... Apple developed iOS, and extremely extensive APIs and documentation to go along with them which enable these apps t

Something else which can’t be overlooked.... Apple developed iOS, and extremely extensive APIs and documentation to go along with them which enable these apps to exist in the first place. In many cases Apple has done the R&D and then productized entirely new hardware and software interfaces which apps leverage. When you develop on iOS you stand on the shoulder of a giant who has enabled, through extraordinary investment of labor and capital, a significant portion of the actual end-user experience of running any given app. One might even say about 30% of that overall experience is Apple’s own work product in the first place. All that is before you even get to the extremely valuable services actually provided by the small piece of the puzzle which is itself called the “App Store”.