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by sbuk 2760 days ago
No, but the apps are. Spotify comes in at 98MB, and Kindle at 113MB. That is a lot of bandwidth. Since Amazon don't offer IAP, they get that for free, Spotify do offer IAP, so contribute that way.
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Then Apple or Google can make developers pay for the size.

And no, Amazon doesn't get it for free, they pay the developer fees like ALL the other developers

> Then Apple or Google can make developers pay for the size.

They do; it's part of the 30% margin for the price of an App/IAP.

IAP doesn't have any size for Apple