"Maybe Apple has been losing money on the App Store infrastructure so they want to make it up" is a plausible theory, but there's no data to support it since mo

"Maybe Apple has been losing money on the App Store infrastructure so they want to make it up" is a plausible theory, but there's no data to support it since mobile gacha/gambling apps pull in billions a year and Apple pockets 30% of it. Those games don't make particularly heavy use of Apple's infrastructure either, so I would guarantee that they are making a healthy profit every year on the store.