https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/tech-ceo-antitrust-hearing-opening-statement-385233#Cook%20statement https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/tech-ceo-

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/tech-ceo-antitrust-hearing-opening-statement-385233#Cook%20statement https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/tech-ceo-antitrust-... > Opening statement from Apple CEO Tim Cook > When the App Store was created, the prevailing distribution options available to software developers at the time did not work well. Brick-and-mortar stores charged high fees and had limited reach. Physical media like CDs had to be shipped and were hard to update. > From the beginning, the App Store was a revolutionary alternative. > App Store developers set prices for their apps and never pay for “shelf space.” [...] > [Apple’s commissions] are vastly lower than the 50 to 70 percent that software developers paid to distribute their work before we launched the App Store.