The game industry has had "traditionally" certain kickback mechanism towards the gaming platform developers. For example I remember playing around with MIT/Sloa

The game industry has had "traditionally" certain kickback mechanism towards the gaming platform developers. For example I remember playing around with MIT/Sloans Platformwars, which even included variables for the game developer kickback in form of licenses[1]. I suspect these were argued by the mutual benefits in the development, branding and licensing. But of cause the democratization process initiated by the low entrance barriers in the App market are putting these in question. Nevertheless one could still see the fees taken by Apple from each App sale as a form of license to get access to their platform. [1] https://mitsloan.mit.edu/MSTIR/system-dynamics/platform-wars/Pages/default.aspx https://mitsloan.mit.edu/MSTIR/system-dynamics/platform-wars...