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Did you research Apple's costs for running the App Store, screening apps for security, etc., before making this blanket statement? I'd wager not.

• sealeck 4y ago
  But they're not billing on the basis of how much it technically costs them to provide these services. If we had a competitive ecosystem then we would expect Apple's prices for payment processing to be at least within an order of magnitude of (for example) Stripe's. Of course security screening is expensive, but it's also not that expensive (e.g. a typical software company might have a 10-30% profit margin, so in some cases apple accounts for roughly half the operational expenses of a company – i.e. the company pays as much, or more, money to apple as it does to its entire payroll)
• kaba0 4y ago
  Do you seriously believe all these things are big expenses? They barely do any screening.