[alt227]

It depends which way you look at it.

You seem to be saying 'Look at all this infrastructure Apple gives you for free, of course you should pay them their cut'.

You could look at it the other way and say 'They made all this infrastructure in order to lock in vendors and monopolise the app market, thereby forcing you to pay them their cut'.

If posts on HN are anything to go by, it seems this perspective is decided simply by whether you like Apple or not!

[m3kw9]

Providing a good service which “lock you in” is a good thing. What do you rather?

[alt227]

Is that sarcastic? If not I feel you have missed the point of this whole thread/argument.

People would rather the freedom to choose what they buy, who they buy it from, and where they buy it. This freedom of choice is much more important to a great many people than being locked in to a service 'because its good'.