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Yeah no. Commercial SDKs and toolchains existed before iOS; heck the OS itself is just a fork of Mac OS. There is no financial reason, other than massive prof

Yeah no. Commercial SDKs and toolchains existed before iOS; heck the OS itself is just a fork of Mac OS. There is no financial reason, other than massive profits, to charge 30% on every transaction.

pjmlp 8y ago
Those commercial SDKs to sell Symbian, J2ME and Windows CE apps in the mobile operators' stores were way higher than 30%.
- wvenable 8y ago
  I developed Symbian and Windows CE apps and we distributed those bad boys the old fashioned way.