Are we asking if the deal is competitive or if it's fair? They are very different questions and most of what I'm reading in this thread seems to treat them as t

Are we asking if the deal is competitive or if it's fair? They are very different questions and most of what I'm reading in this thread seems to treat them as the same. Maybe Apple doesn't want big, low-margin publishers in the app store. Maybe they want to be the big publisher and they only want small time content that is worth many times what it cost to produce. As a developer, I don't like that the hottest new platform is a walled garden, but I can't say that Apple has ever even implied that the app store is anything else and they haven't twisted any arms or abused any monopolies to get where they are. They just played really well, went straight to the source (consumers), and now they have everyone else by the balls.