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You must be joking.

Do you really think WeChat pays Apple for the file transfers for hundreds of millions of copies of WeChat to customer iPhones every month (when you include updates). Essentially at least 100 Megabytes times 100 to 200 million a month.

Apple has been doing diff updates for a while, meaning that the actual bandwidth consumed for updates is most likely much less than 100mb

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index...

Even with diffs it's a huge cost.

Yes, they pay with they developer account.

If you don't like it, please, tell Apple (or Google) that bandwidth has to be paid.

Until then, it is irrelevant if the app is 10kb or it is downloaded 12.000.000.000 times.

It's entirely relevant. That 30% pays the costs of the app store, and bandwidth is probably the biggest cost of running the app store.

Please show me where Apple says the $99 I pay every year pays for their Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Operating costs of running the app store and getting me customers.

Please, show me were the bandwith has to be paid. Until then, it is irrelevant if an app is 1kb or 1gb

You really believe someone is going to host a store for free where you get to distribute as many copies of whatever you want?

I guarantee bandwidth has to be paid for. If Apple doesn't write that check the App store ceases to exist.

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