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70% of an apple purchase goes to the app developer. That's not ripping off developers.

Apple doesn’t charge itself a 30% fee when it competes with other developers for the same paying users.

And you dont charge yourself what the lawn companies charge you to cut your yard. I don't really get your point.

Your example is faulty. No one pays you to cut your own lawn.

People pay Apple to listen to Apple Music.

People pay Apple to watch TV+.

Other competitors have to pay 30% for every customer before they can even compete with their own product.