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Google charges the same 30%: http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/a...

However, this isn't an apt comparison to what Adobe's doing. Apple, Google, Amazon, etc provide the infrastructure, hosting, payment processing, and the integration into the device. Adobe is providing none of this, yet is still claiming a piece of the action.

None of that justifies a 'cover charge' - lots of folks make hardware, everybody has their store. They only 'provide' the store because they won't let anyone else.

The guys that do it, do it because they can.

I don't think it's about charging a percentage, I think it's about charging for something that was free.

When GOOG and AAPL first launched their stores, it they were clear in saying they were going to take 30% (hosting/banking/whatever they justified). If you had a successful product with Adobe that was running for over a year using their "premium" libraries, you just lost 9%.

And don't forget about the Android marketplace too. But Adobe is the devil and Apple and Google are gods obviously, so that does explain it.