Especially since Apple hosts free apps that support themselves only through other means (e.g. ads). Thus, even a 100% fee would do nothing to cover App Store c

Especially since Apple hosts free apps that support themselves only through other means (e.g. ads). Thus, even a 100% fee would do nothing to cover App Store costs in those cases. Worse, a lot of these “free” apps are made by huge companies like Facebook that really could afford to pay the huge sums it must cost to enable their apps. People like to focus on the percentage fee while conveniently not mentioning a lot of other things that matter: - Every developer that isn’t a huge company offering apps “for free” is subsidizing the cost of App Store upkeep for those big companies that do not lose any 30% fees. - Apple basically won’t pay you for months unless you’ve passed a certain threshold. Thus, Apple “makes money” by being able to hold onto your money interest-free for awhile, multiplied by all the apps that are not making a lot of money. - Every developer of any size must pay $100 PER YEAR so “free apps” always make Apple money anyway. This fee does not go away even if you haven’t been paid by Apple in awhile. - Despite $100 per year, developers can be mistreated by Apple (e.g. review time delays, bogus rejections, bugs left unfixed in developer tools). Yet it is abundantly clear that Apple does not treat developers equally.