2 days of global revenue is not a good baseline for breaking a single country.
Comparing against their UK revenue is probably a better metric ?
Comparing against their UK revenue is probably a better metric ?
Devs voluntarily choose to publish apps on the App Store and doing so gets them both another discovery channel and a low-friction sales channel. Stores being robbed by shoplifters don't voluntarily enter that arrangement and they get no benefit from it.
But at a fundamental level, they are breaking the law to extract money from people. You may not call that stealing, but imho it's not a huge stretch of reality.
So what difference does it make to the regular joe that the loan shark got shook down by the mafia boss ?
For most companies, the choice is: pay Apple, or dissolve your company.
That's not much of a choice, and I think we all know it.
This is like saying that every American can choose to trash their car and take public transit. It sounds like a choice, but the real world has consequences and in fact most Americans do not have the ability to eschew private transport. That is just simply not how the world works.
Laws apply to jurisdictions, there are no universal laws which are legally binding.
Even if it is illegal, it is for them to collect their own fines for that crime .