>>very well guarded and fenced AppStore IS a great feature for consumers. it is always amusing when people attempt to paint anti-consumer features as pro consu

>>very well guarded and fenced AppStore IS a great feature for consumers. it is always amusing when people attempt to paint anti-consumer features as pro consumer... >>As a father I'd Really, you are going for "think of the children" defense of anti-consumer policy. Classic For decades electronics have had all manner of Child protection features, it is trivial to prevent the installation of apps, or even other apps stores from unapproved users, and a child should not have the authority to install any apps, form the Apple store or not In enterprise system administration we have been doing this on computers for decades preventing unauthorized applications or users from installing things That is a solved problem and in no way is a locked down controlled by apple ecosystem required to archive parental controls on the device Edit: >There is a huge market of consumers who value their own protection and the protection of their families A LOT more than IAP margins for developers I am sure they do, I am sure they do not care about the devs at all, that is clear from your position. If the consumer cares about this soo much then it should not be a problem for them to bear the cost of this not the devs, if the value of the Apple store is the Security and Privacy of the store then the consumer not the dev should pay for that. A 30% fee added to the price of the app charged to the CUSTOMER then should be the fair payment method, not extorting 30% of revenue from the dev I have a feeling that both you and apple know that most consumers would not put the value of that service at 30% though this is why they extort the devs not the customer