I don’t know how this came to be accepted as normal. I’m older so I remember when you used to buy a device or OS and software to run on it separately. What you

I don’t know how this came to be accepted as normal. I’m older so I remember when you used to buy a device or OS and software to run on it separately. What you paid for the device or OS was what funded those things. There is no reason why the same shouldn’t be true for Apple iOS/iPhone and Google Android/whatever-they’re-stopping-support-for-next. App Store takes a cut to use the App Store? Fine. But a reasonable cut simply for that convenience would be more like 10%. Wonder if we’ll ever see a government crack down on tech company monopolies again (or any monopoly).