Epic expert estimates Apple's App Store profit to be nearly 80%

Which suggests they would breakeven with a 6% cut - probably accurate when accounting for store design and management, app reviews, storage, bandwidth, customer support, payment processing fees.

Maybe the solution is to keep the current $99/year development tier for completely free apps with no IAP, but also require a $500/year payment for any paid app, and move to a 10% commission.

This would reduce the amount of junk apps being submitted - reducing overheads and customer support for dodgy apps - whilst still delivering a big commercial improvement for developers of paid apps.

And what’s epic’s margin from getting kids addicted to wasting their time (and money) on Skinner box games? Both companies are socially destructive, but epic is pure-play evil.

just 80?

I agree. It should cost them almost nothing to run (on a comparative basis). They made $15B I believe. $100M/year + payment processing fees seems generous.