It's fair for Steam to charge that additional 25-30% since you have a choice to use it or not to reach that audience. If you become popular, you can de-list yo

It's fair for Steam to charge that additional 25-30% since you have a choice to use it or not to reach that audience. If you become popular, you can de-list yourself off of Steam, and continue running on your website for free. The issue isn't that the app store takes 30% of your purchases to manage payments. If I'm a startup, I don't wanna deal with all of this complexity, so I'm all for it. What bothers me is that they control everything that's allowed on your phone. If you want to target iPhone users, you have no choice but to go through them. App stores are great, but forcing companies to go through them is bad. Allow people to plug in their phones and install apps from their computer. Easy solution, Google phones already allow this with some technical know-how. Allow other app stores on your phones.