As much as I think this is a monopoly pushing around the little guys, I'm inclined to side with apple on this. But instead of taking a sneaky 30%, add the store fee to customers receipt as an additional line item. Its more transparent and fair to developers and customers can vote with their wallets.
But I still remember the days when apps were web based, native ones banned and the only app store had to be installed via jailbreak. Apple was not first, but adding a second store is a vector for all sorts of nefarious code and, monopoly aside, a company touting security and privacy can't allow that.
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