While running the app store is not free. People seem to forget that with out the app store then no one would buy the iPhone at all. Or a much smally subset of p

While running the app store is not free. People seem to forget that with out the app store then no one would buy the iPhone at all. Or a much smally subset of people would. I bet the number of iPhone that have zero apps is nearly 0 This idea that the only value the store has to apple.is the fees from app sales is missing the actual value of the store It makes the iPhone more valuable allowing them to charge a premium price for the hardware Their push of security and privacy in the store give the ecosystem more value. I know many people that have choosen to by iPhone over Android for this policy. The appstore is one of apples market separataing feature to sell the iphone