Apple didn't need to make as many deals as they're the only OEM. There's no real way to have a separate app store on Apple phones. Smartphone makers need app s

Apple didn't need to make as many deals as they're the only OEM. There's no real way to have a separate app store on Apple phones. Smartphone makers need app store revenue to make the handsets competitively priced. It would really hurt Android market share if all non-Google Android phones were say 10-20% more expensive to compensate for that. Or alternatively if you had a fragmented ecosystem with a separate app store per OEM. I'm not saying that it's a good thing, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to share app store revenue with the OEM making the device. Can't speak to the deals with particular app developers like Riot or Spotify