The app store ecosystem only works for me because I stopped being interested in new apps as a consumer, and as a dev I long ago gave up on making mobile apps wi

The app store ecosystem only works for me because I stopped being interested in new apps as a consumer, and as a dev I long ago gave up on making mobile apps with any hopes of making money on them. The lack of viruses due to the locked down nature of iOS is a blessing, but app store discoverability is terrible and the only apps with any chance of 'making it' have marketing budgets in the millions, or happen to have connections on the inside at the App Store. It's shovelware or big budget games, with very little room in the middle for 'normal' devs. Anyways, none of that excuses how Apple is forcing developers to pay them 30%. It's particularly egregious in a case like Spotify, where that 30% directly limits Spotify's ability to match Apple Music on price. But it's unacceptable even outside of that. Apple 1) Demands 30% of payment made with their in-app-payment system 2) Disallows alternative payment methods presented in-app and 3) Disallows sideloading, so there's no alternative for companies who can't compete under the terms of 1) and 2). At least one of those 3 need to change, and I hope the EU will manage to force that to happen.