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I think the first few lines are fear mongering. Apple is obviously not going to ask for a cut when you transfer money in a banking app, pretty sure that will bo

I think the first few lines are fear mongering. Apple is obviously not going to ask for a cut when you transfer money in a banking app, pretty sure that will borderline be illegal. Same goes for E-commerce. > We slowly turn into a world where everything can be managed via an app Is it not fair then, for a company creating a platform for the app, making your app available to billions of users, while also keeping the platform safe and providing new features and capabilities consistently to ask for a cut of transactions made on their platform?

willsmith72 4y ago
I would say no, because of the lock-in. Your argument would make more sense if I could go off and browse any one of a hypothetical 20 competing platforms, but that's not the case.
lapcat 4y ago
> making your app available to billions of users As an App Store developer, I eagerly await those billions of users. Marketing is hard, and expensive. I don't expect Apple to do my marketing for me — and they don't — but let's not pretend that Apple is providing customers. Potential != Actual. Moreover, the existence of 3rd party apps is a selling point for Apple devices. Do we developers get a cut of Apple's hardware sales? > while also keeping the platform safe The crap store is full of scams. And now it's advertising gambling all over the place, even in the listings of non-gambling apps. Is it fair to consumers that they pay a lot of money for a new shiny Apple device, but after they take the device home, Apple continues to demand a cut of things that consumers do on those devices, forever?