Seems pretty reasonable since they have paid nothing for a giant distribution mechanism for almost 15 years.
One of the chief complaints about the 15/30% fee has been that people like Meta pay nothing and are subsidized by everyone else.
One of the chief complaints about the 15/30% fee has been that people like Meta pay nothing and are subsidized by everyone else.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...
What you are describing is an unavoidable cost of doing business which Apple is entitled to charge developers for.
Using dumb file hosting on Backblaze this would cost somewhere near $9M (public pricing). A full app store would have additional costs but $70M still seems high.