> Yet they also do it if the app competes with them or their functionality Is this about the screen time apps? Not all apps were targeted and there was a legit

> Yet they also do it if the app competes with them or their functionality Is this about the screen time apps? Not all apps were targeted and there was a legitimate reason for that: that they could be malicious... A more likely narrative is that Apple wanted to offer a safer version of these apps so they let it slide until they could get around to it. If you have a different/counter example, please share. > Grocery chains buy the product for resale. A notable difference. The shelf space fee is analogous to the $99 yearly developer fee and the the markup the grocery store charges is analogous to the 30%/15%. I don’t see a significant difference here. > Grocery stores also have plenty of competition that can offer the same product Yet all but the smallest grocery stores do this making this fact irrelevant since for lots of products you don’t have a choice anyway. > Grocery stores don't often pull anticompetitive shit like this Bad of course, but also not relevant here either. > Perhaps they could make money of value of the service they provide You underestimate the extent of the service they provide. They develop all the hardware/software and built a powerful brand attracting the wealthiest customers to spend money in the store. There’s much more to selling apps than just App Store infrastructure.