[zxcmx]

Credit card companies charge ~ 3% to manage a far more complex and fraud-prone ecosystem.

It's Apple's sandpit and they make the rules, but I think it's hard to rationally justify their take other than "because they can".

[pjmlp]

I guess the 80% previously charged by mobile operators specific stores was much better then, how quickly people forget about how things were.

[cercatrova]

You said this on another comment, it's disingenuous to say that just because it was bad before that it's not bad now. Apple really shouldn't charge 30 percent for doing basically nothing except gate keeping.

[pjmlp]

They do more than gatekeeping and aren't the only ones doing 30%.

[cercatrova]

You seem biased in favor of Apple. Why is that?

> aren't the only ones doing 30%.

Again, just because "other people do it" does not a compelling argument make. It's just an "argument to the people" logical fallacy.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

[pjmlp]

Because I am no hippie pointing the finger to the man and they are entitled to their business.

Don't like it? Give your money to someone else and stop complaining.

[cercatrova]

If there are only two sellers of mobile apps, you can't just "give your money to someone else" because no one else exists. That's the essence of antitrust, whether it be monopoly, duopoly, or oligopoly. I'd agree with you if there were a free market of device OSes and app stores, but a market of only two is fundamentally unfree.