[svartkanin]

A company has to make profit to support their tens of thousands of engineers. Google releases an enormous amount of products for free and gets the profit from advertisement and user data.

Apple on the other hand takes the cut from their products and software.

Somehow everyone seems to want things for free and never and keep the whole cake for themselves. Using any app store as a company is like renting renting selling space where customers browse. But the app store owner takes care of the maintenance so why wouldn't they get their cut for that?