It has for a long time been a dual culture, it doesn't take long to run into this when doing web dev work. Applogists love to trot this line out when trying to defend their favourite trillion dollar company, and fail to see the effects it has on a much wider ecosystem.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/250918/apples-revenue-fr...
Apple charges developers and users "for our user's security" (the App store is the vast majority of service income) about 27 billion dollars per year for it. In fact, this income is the ONLY new product Apple has made since the iPhone ...
The govts need to bring a 11% revenue penalty via anti-trust laws. Then's when it'll start showing effect.
kazinator•3h ago