Nobody likes the 30% AppStore fee, but it has never been a credit card processing cost.
It has always been a marketplace access fee.
That’s the principle of building malls and other commercial public spaces: they invest to create a space for people to flock into and advertise and maintain it.
That’s what you are paying for.
@Migueldeicaza Yes but there are lots of competing malls and your microwave works with all of them. Apple is the equivalent of buying a vendors microwave and then only being able to buy food from the vendors shop at 30% markup.
@etchedpixels you get to choose if you want to build microwaves that work on all malls or sold in your store. .net, flutter and the web all offer that.
The fee to sell on the AppStore is about accessing a specific marketplace. And you might be enticed to build products purely for that ecosystem.
@Migueldeicaza @etchedpixels I think you analogy there is flawed, and therefore you've just constructed a quaint straw man argument.
The concept that Apple treats the web akin to native is laughable.
Apple control what sellers sell fair more than any comparable or existing ecosystem. They abuse their monopoly/duopoly to control what people can do with their platform, and consistently gatekeep.
Allowing multiple app stores to compete on their platform would be a step forward.
@intrbiz @etchedpixels the analogy was there to help people understand. Feel free to debate the merits of my analogy - just don’t CC me.
The base line is simple: Apple charges a fee to access their market. It was stated in black and white in the epic trial.