Your list is companies being paid an affiliate rate. If I start linking companies that don't do affiliate stuff, they charge a lot less.
Which is to say that 30% could be a reasonable amount if you had any choice in the matter of what services you want to purchase from apple.
> It was never 90% rate. Apple has had the 30% rate since 2011.
All that matters is revenue vs. cost.
Apple's app store brings in about 80 billion a year right now.
In 2013 it was 10 billion.
People made apps in 2013, even though 70% of 10 billion is less than 10% of 80 billion.
They'd make apps for 10% of 80 billion and they'd definitely make apps for 25% of 80 billion.
> If everyone did it all at the same time as a protest. Apple would have to respond and everyone certainly would.
Everyone standing up and refusing those billions of dollars in solidarity is more outlandish than anything I've said.
> So you are saying paying the 30% on the App store is worth it as you get a larger paying market. Which is what makes the 30% reasonable because it is worth it.
It's much easier for a fee to be "worth it" than to be "reasonable".
If an airline started charging a fee of $5 for "Breathable air or whatever, screw you.", it would still be worth buying a ticket, but the fee would not be reasonable.