[blunderkid]

User friendliness aside, the 30% that Apple keeps is just plain & simple monopoly abuse, especially on the iOS App Store where Apple does control a majority of the market in US. That they haven't been held up for anti-trust shows that capitalism is not all well. Apple provides no value in exchange for that 30% except charging gatekeepers fee for the entry ticket to their platform. And as this article states, they in fact stand up more hurdles by shoving their limited payments system down the developer's throat. The companies worst affected by this are digital content providers like news/mags which are already struggling.