This thread has a lot of weird turns I'd not expect.
"All they do is steal 30% from society" - objectively it's for providing a service, an infrastructure, a very solid user market, a very solid developer experience (you have to build for a limited number of iOS versions, you don't have to test on a gazillion devices with different flavors of Android), a slightly higher income userbase, and a few others.
Seeing the whole thing simply as "theft" boggles my mind, especially coming from people working in or around this industry.
"All they do is steal 30% from society" - objectively it's for providing a service, an infrastructure, a very solid user market, a very solid developer experience (you have to build for a limited number of iOS versions, you don't have to test on a gazillion devices with different flavors of Android), a slightly higher income userbase, and a few others.
Seeing the whole thing simply as "theft" boggles my mind, especially coming from people working in or around this industry.