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Lots, lots more. If the Apple their devices weren't monopolistically locked down, or the store was an open market.

Really, you think its worth their cut, just to operate the store? How much overhead would it take you to put up a web store? They only get away with it because they aren't Microsoft.



> Really, you think its worth their cut, just to operate the store?

That's not all they do, though. They build the platform and heavily market it, too.


They get paid for their hardware. Everybody else does too - phones, Android. Apple adds to that a 'company store' model that is unjustified.

They do it only because they can get away with it.




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