Interesting perspective, however bargaining with Apple like a peasant to his king about the tax regime seems like such a powerless way to approach the problem.

Interesting perspective, however bargaining with Apple like a peasant to his king about the tax regime seems like such a powerless way to approach the problem. Apple's Appstore is flawed in many ways. All Appstores leave something to be desired. I'll take all the long breath out of my philosophy[1], but it boils down to an inherit weakness in the business model of pushing downloads for cash flow. Many of the most successful apps have completely decoupled their revenue from downloads, or the 70/30 split. The "Big Players" like King.com and the rest sell in game items that cost $100! Do you think they care about the 70/30 split? Then you have other utility apps. Like "Fixify" for $1 that let's me see the title of my Spotify Music on my Pebble. Seems like Spotify should just do it, but they don't. This dude got my dollar. That app had to be like 200 lines of Java, most of which was probably boilerplate. If you are concerned about 70% or 80%, or 85%, you are thinking too small. If Tim had balls he could say "fine, here is 95%" and then somehow prove it didn't change the economics of the Appstore. TLDR - If you are worried about the split, you are "gripping the bat wrong." [1] http://www.connersc.com/blog/lets-face-it-folks-ios-is-not-a-strategy/ http://www.connersc.com/blog/lets-face-it-folks-ios-is-not-a...