You might not like the 27% cut, but that’s only fair, and I explaind this time and again about Apple apps and services. Like iMessage, the App Store is a proprietary Apple technology.

Yes, it’s a storefront that makes apps available on iPhones. And the iPhone would be worthless without them. But the apps themselves and the revenue streams they generate for developers would not exist without the iPhone, iOS, the infrastructure that supports them, and the years of development Apple has put in. All of that cost money to make, and Apple is now just capitalizing on all that.

Anyone in Apple’s place would do the same thing. And indeed, other marketplaces have similar commissions.

WTF kinda bullshit is this? If there was literally any other way to install an app I would agree, but there's not.

Yes, it costs money to run the app store. Probably about 1% of that 27% would cover it.

Yes, it costs money to build iphones and iOS, but Apple is not a charity. They don't hand them out at the mall. They charge exorbitant prices for them.