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> Apple won't miss you if you decide to leave

Hmm, maybe. I'm not so sure that's always true, though. Individual withdrawals can turn into group retreats, which can build into an exodus.

The potential for developer wealth on the platform may be well-publicized, but the financial returns received by typical developers themselves may be less rewarding.

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In general, you are right. According to some online state, the Apo store grew from 500 apps in 2008 to around 2M currently. The number of iOS developer are over 400k, coming in second to Android at 800k. I think developer write apps for economic and financial reasons in addition to their innate passion - not for pure ideological reasons. So u less apple does something extremely stupid like 50% cut, this won’t change.

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