Gotta love the “excessive” fees according to those developers that spend just $100/year to have free:
- IDE and tooling
- content distribution with extreme reliability
- free services like push notifications servers etc
- free advertising/presence in a store that has users because Apple spends millions on advertising to get people on it
- all the billing process taken care of, with refunds, subscriptions etc, accepting any currency from all the international stores
All of that but apparently asking 30% cut is “too much”. It’s not like Apple pulled a fast one on them: they knew that’s the fee to be on it, they still decided to go on it but then complain?!
Entitlement…
But the whole reason why they’d want to run it on their devices is because Apple spent billions to get people to use the phones (and R&D, and writing an OS, and advertising, etc)
This is basically saying “I know you spent years and billions to make iOS become a very profitable place for me to publish an app successfully, but… I don’t wanna paaaayyyy! Apple is the big meany and they should do it for me because reasons”