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It’s really straightforward. Platform owners make investments in supporting development on their platform. Xcode? Metal? Would there even be any apps, developer

• lbwtaylor 4y ago
  >>Would there even be any apps, developers, or users on iOS if they didn’t make this investment? Pricing power comes from market power. Apple has market power because they were first in the new generation of touchscreen phones. Some app developers have hugely benefited. Some app developers already have an audience and just want their software to be available on all platforms and Apple is using it's market position to extract a toll. I think it's abusive given it's market power. Epic doesn't care about metal or xcode and if there was an open phone that had market position (like Windows PC) Epic would be fine to port it's software to that system. Apple's toll comes from it's market position, not it's investment. The investment created the position -- but For how long does the consumer need to pay Apple's toll for being first 15 years ago? Forever? Apple recouped it's investment many many many times over.
• bsjaux628 4y ago
  And get revenue by forcing developers to pay a yearly license to develop for the platform plus forcing them to buy your overpriced hardware.