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Originally Posted by silentsim
Because they would lose a significant amount of larger developers who refuse to give Apple the 30%, such as the Creative Suite, and probably even the Microsoft Office suite. It won't happen, amongst other things.
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So why do developers tolerate it on the iOS platforms? There are a number of apps now in the million dollars of revenue club. Apple's cut isn't chump change for these companies (and conversely, Apple's app store has made them a LOT of money they may not otherwise had made in a fragmented or non-existent app store)
You could argue Apple is dominant in the mobile app space, but they actually only have like what, 20% of the smartphone market? This compares pretty well to Apple's market in the PC world too, if we believe the numbers they trotted out today.
It's an interesting situation. At the end of the day, I'm sure Apple is shooting for something like Steam, and know they can never lock it down like they did with iOS without ceding massive amounts of goodwill and market share back to the PC.