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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
It's a duopoly. If you want to sell any kind of software, provide any kind of service or device that requires an app for smartphone users in the US and basically every country except China you have to get your app in the App Store and the Play Store and that means playing by their sometimes ridiculous rules and forking over 30% of your revenue with no real alternative. Even if you ignore Apple in many countries like the US that's automatically throwing away 50% or more of your potential customer base. They have far too much control over far too important devices these days.
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AFAIK neither Google nor Apple denies the ability of the app developer to sell outside of the app. They also don't demand any % of sales not done within their app. If an app dev wants to get around the 30% Google and Apple are demanding, let them set up the infastructure to supply an always online server to register accounts, process payments, distribute tokens to the apps to grant the features purchased out of app, etc.
Why should Apple or Google not get a slice of the sales when they're the ones providing those services, along with the install bases they both offer. They provide a service to the app devs, and ask to be paid for it. Imagine asking to be paid for a service you provide. As stated, the devs have the options. So to do consumers though it's based on what the devs do.