Apple should avoid destroying developer trust as developers aren't forced to write ios apps. Apple needs developers.
And the revenue makes the most sense on ios for a large share of developers.
95%+ of developers don't care if Apple doesn't allow Epic on their store. That's just reality.
If my boss tells me "we're launching an ios app" I'm not going to tell him about how I disagree with Apples principles and refuse to build it.
I wish it did but it really doesn't. You can see countless "I lost my google account for a random reason" and yet everyone I know has a google account and probably uses gmail.
Trust me, Apple pissing off developers is absolutely going to have serious implications for them.
I have no effin need for a second store, or a third or a fifth.
What was stopping companies from doing PWAs before? Were they not annoyed at 30% cut? Was the cost of maintaining a separate app for a single platform too small to care about?
Apple was and is stopping companies from doing PWAs.
Smaller devs and midrange gaming companies tremendously helped launch the iPhone, but there's clearly just an afterthought in current Apple's mind.