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It seems pretty obvious to me. Apple wants a user experience that makes the user happy with Apple products, not one where the app is complaining to the user about Apple policies. Apple is happy to prohibit zillions of random different things; they perceive the openness or fairness of their platform as much less important than user experience.

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> It seems pretty obvious to me.

Me too. Absolutely no retailer, digital or physical, would allow anything like this.

But how does prohibiting disclosure of money distribution facilitate this?

It's keeping the users who have chosen Apple's products from being weaponized-via-guilt-trip against them.

So, the same reason that China doesn't have a free press, then?

Not a lot of people immigrating to China willingly for that analogy to hold up.

Then perhaps a better example would be the UAE:

https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/middle-east/duba...

That's people getting scammed into migrant labor. Hardly a choice they'd make if they knew the facts.

I don't see a parallel to someone buying a premium device, at a premium price, expecting—and getting—a premium experience. Apple respects the trust their customers have afforded them, and rightfully keeps potentially-hostile third parties from detracting from that experience.

What if all apps did this? Isn't it just transparency?

Sure, it would be transparency.

Why don't they just break down how every percent is allocated?

How much is food? How much is electricity? How much is grey-market nootropics?

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