I'm also in the minority for thinking if what apple charged wasn't worth it, then no one would pay it. What did it take it the bad old days to actually get you

I'm also in the minority for thinking if what apple charged wasn't worth it, then no one would pay it. What did it take it the bad old days to actually get your app into consumer hands, a publisher and a retailer who if you were lucky decided to do a deal with you and then you were given a small percentage cut.