And in other breaking news - "Water is Wet!" /s The App Store makes Apple billions of dollars by forcing developers to shell out an annual recurring fees, an a

And in other breaking news - "Water is Wet!" /s The App Store makes Apple billions of dollars by forcing developers to shell out an annual recurring fees, an arbitarily decided percentage cut of every sale from every app, and through "free" adware infested apps (that use Apple's advertising networks). All this is only possible because the ios / iPadOS platform deliberately cripples the ability to directly install an app from anywhere else but the Apple App Store. The result - developers make less profit, open source developers of free apps struggle, and owner-consumers of iPhones and iPads ultimately end up with costlier apps because of the "Apple Tax" most are not even aware of.