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I'm pretty sure you'd start screaming blood murder if your grocery store put a flat 30% markup on all items tomorrow.

That's exactly what they do. They buy products from suppliers and mark them up, sell the the products and take the margin.

Except the markup and margins are extremely low because the grocery business is competitive.

Unlike the app store space (within a given device)

That is profit margins in a competitive market.