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by native_samples 1455 days ago
Distribution, backups, credit card handling, user management etc are all cheap. You'd be looking at <5% overheads in most cases.

What Apple are actually charging for is the first item in your list - access to the users. Apple wired the hardware to make themselves a middleman in every transaction. That's it, that's all it boils down to.