I haven't talked about unjust fees I've talked about unjust contracts, which prevent forming a direct relationship with customers, aka export your business off the app stores. Once you build the business there they don't want you taking it anywhere else. And they'll wield their influence over smartphone hardware to keep developers complacent. There was just a big antitrust case about this, and the walled garden lost. The losses will continue. The big developers with big resources will use these new pathways to extract more revenue at Apple's expense. Nobody is talking about little guys except you.
They didn’t make a PWA.
And I don’t want a “direct relationship” with app makers for them to spam me. I use “Hide my email” for a reason.
And the “wall garden” didn’t lose the case.
Apple won on almost every account. The reason Google lost is that they changed the rules of the game after a consumer bought into their “open platform”
There are plenty of ways to fund App Store purchases that don’t involve credit cards and parents aren’t going to give their kids their credit card numbers.
The other big revenue source from mobile - doesn’t involve money going through the app stores at all. They are services surfaced through apps where users already don’t pay through the App Store - like Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft office and all of the B2B apps.
Neither Apple nor Google care about the little Indy app developer.
You keep talking about “unjust “ fees. I’m talking about developers of casino style games that make almost all of the money in the App Store - this came out in the Epic trial.
It’s not about the little guy - no one cares about the little guy - including Apple.