You make some decent points. But will you concede that prohibiting differential pricing, thereby preventing sellers from passing along the HUGE Apple tax, is an

You make some decent points. But will you concede that prohibiting differential pricing, thereby preventing sellers from passing along the HUGE Apple tax, is anti-competitive wrt other lowest-cost payment services, and raises prices for consumers? I understand this is orthogonal to your initial post about your ecstasy. E.g., what do you think about Amazon simple pay; they are as/more trustworthy than Apple and far cheaper. https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/asp/subscriptions#pricing https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/asp/subscript... Just to be clear, I think charging 30% for initial app download is outrageous for a glorified download.com.