Comment Re:For once.... (Score 1) 53
That's the point. They do not have a contract with apple but with the app manufacturer who promises to forward payments from the users to them. But they can't make contracts on funds they don't get from apple - who THEY have their contracts with. No one takes money from people they don't have contracts with. And if their contract partner promises something like that they have to match it out of their own pockets.
But this whole thing is bonkers anyway. When I want to get a product or service, I want to have ONE contract for that. I don't want to have to pay 5 different people for eating a steak at a restaurant. When I buy a chair I don't want to pay three parties for the wood, shipping it to the carpenter and then for making the chair.