> They went to the platform because the iPhone was rapidly gaining popularity and they gained access to a captive market. So as Apple stated in court docs - it

> They went to the platform because the iPhone was rapidly gaining popularity and they gained access to a captive market. So as Apple stated in court docs - it's symbiosis between company, developers and users. If iPhone were bad people wouldn't buy them and developers wouldn't create apps with bad conditions in economic terms. > if they could do the store at 30%, they could do it for far less when scaled u Since they aren't monopoly (court conclusion after TRO hearing and on and after preliminary hearing on September 28th 2020) and we are on free market there is no reason to discuss their fee. Moreover they didn't upped it. And never did from App Store launch in 2008, only lowered for subscriptions after 1 year from 30% to 15%. Developers can stop learning Objective-C/Swift and switch to Android-whatever on their career start if they feel bad about industry-standard 30% fee. But developers won't because Apple's user base is paying money and not sideloading pirated versions like on Android. Also business and investors don't care about Android, like Clubhouse - for start-ups only iOS matters on first years. So what we see? Developers who make tenths of millions (Epic Games with Tencent) want free access for Apple's user (install) base for free. There is a word for this - parasitism.