Have you seen the Google App Store? It's garbage. At least Apple has some standards.
The 30% take though is rough. There should be a $ cap on that. Enough to weed out the scammers but at a certain point it's a Mafia style cut.
I will never as long as I live understand the mentality of "30% is too much." First of all, who is anyone to say how much is too much? It's certainly lower than the markup used by many brick & mortar retailers, not least of which includes grocery stores where manufacturers actually have to pay them up front for shelf space. Or clothing retailers where markups of 200 and 300 percent are so common as to not even raise eyebrows. It also was what pushed other digital retailers like Sony, Microsoft and A
These alternate iOS app stores use leaked enterprise certificates (that step where you "install a profile"), which Apple constantly revokes, as running a competing app store isn't kosher with Apple's TOS.
This isn't the same at all as on Android, where you can simply change an option in the OS to allow 3rd party app installations, and then you can simply download APKs through the web browser, if you want. As for alternate Android app stores, Amazon seems to be doing pretty good with theirs.
I will never as long as I live understand the mentality of "30% is too much." First of all, who is anyone to say how much is too much? It's certainly lower than the markup used by many brick & mortar retailers, not least of which includes grocery stores where manufacturers actually have to pay them up front for shelf space. Or clothing retailers where markups of 200 and 300 percent are so common as to not even raise eyebrows. It also was what pushed other digital retailers like Sony, Microsoft and A
These alternate iOS app stores use leaked enterprise certificates (that step where you "install a profile"), which Apple constantly revokes, as running a competing app store isn't kosher with Apple's TOS.
This isn't the same at all as on Android, where you can simply change an option in the OS to allow 3rd party app installations, and then you can simply download APKs through the web browser, if you want. As for alternate Android app stores, Amazon seems to be doing pretty good with theirs.