With the caveats that I: * Don't use Facebook or any other social networking apps * Don't really use very many apps, period * Have the deepest disdain for e

With the caveats that I: * Don't use Facebook or any other social networking apps * Don't really use very many apps, period * Have the deepest disdain for every company involved in this Apple's pricing plan doesn't strike me as crazy. Given the value that being on the App Store brings to Facebook, even if they choose not to monetize through it. If you asked them: would you rather pay $70MM or not have your app listed on the App Store, it feels like they would rush to pay the money, knowing that if they disappeared from the App Store it would be catastrophic. My naive understanding of pricing makes this seem like a fair trade. Those for whom I have more sympathy are small app developers who would be punished by success under this model, especially the vanishingly few who release free (unmonetized) apps and could become so successful they went bankrupt under Apple's model. That failure makes me dislike the proposal. At that point, you'd be insane to release a good and free app, and that's not the world I want to encourage.