> They've clearly said many times "this year have helped developers earn x billions through the appstore". Then it's easy to calculate their cut. But making mon

> They've clearly said many times "this year have helped developers earn x billions through the appstore". Then it's easy to calculate their cut. But making money is not illegal. No... it's easy to calculate their revenue, but it's not easy to calculate how much profit they made versus how much it cost them to operate the App Store. Pure revenue is largely irrelevant, from what I understand. As you say, making money isn't illegal, it's just the sign of a successful business. > The app store is only a monopoly on iOS, not on phones or computers in general. I think it will be very hard to make that case. I completely agree, under the way the laws were written decades ago. A lot of powerful people have been moving to update the way monopolies are understood for the digital era, and to remove Apple's monopoly over iOS. In the US, I can point to various examples of this, but these two will do for the current discussion: https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/06/app-store-gives-apple-monopoly-power-over-ios-apps-us-house-antitrust-report-says/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/06/app-store-gives-apple-monopol... https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/03/senate-committee-advances-open-app-markets-act.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/03/senate-committee-advances-op... Whether these attempts succeed or not is difficult to say, given how strongly Apple lobbies on their own behalf. Knowing exactly what the P&L look like for the App Store would make it easier for Apple's opponents to make the case that Apple is misusing their position to take advantage of large numbers of people and businesses within the US due to a lack of competition for iOS users, which might make their government representatives push harder on the issue. That's the political reality as I see it in the US. I could be off base, but there has been lots of discussion about Apple and their App Store again lately.