The two possible alternatives I’d see with any plausibility: - Apple brings down their fees to an almost “at cost” amount (basically a bit more than average P

The two possible alternatives I’d see with any plausibility: - Apple brings down their fees to an almost “at cost” amount (basically a bit more than average PSPs). They keep ads and other potential “premium” services that have actual value for buyers. I even wonder if they could make searchability or even app store listing as a paying service (apps staying on the lowest tier could only be DLed by direct link for instance) - they bring an “unmanaged” tier to apps, where users go through many hoops to have non app store apps to run. It could be on the same model as The mac app store, where the dev is identified and the binaries are signed, but not verified by Apple. Both alternatives were vehemently avoided by Apple for such a long time, but I wouldn’t be surprised (actually I hope) if they have to give up this battle.