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I don't think anyone in the industry assumes that. Apple has been known for these kinds of practices for some time now.

• dev_tty01 7y ago
  I don't know what you mean by "these kinds of practices" but I agree with you to the extent that Apple is a for-profit company. Anything positive that Apple wants to achieve either for customers and/or society at large only happens if Apple is profitable. No profit, nothing else can or will happen. Profit is priority one as it should be for a business. Customers are next and Apple has succeeded only through driving profit by (most of the time) delighting customers. Developers are somewhere after that. This is how and why companies exist. I don't get why anyone expects anything different. Amazon has leverage so their negotiation is different. Apple would be a poorly run business and less successful if they didn't negotiate and work deals in a manner consistent with reality. It is not good or bad, it is just the real world.