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That is obviously not a fair comparison. Apple's developer fee is there to create a little bit of a filter and to help reinforce the legal agreement for getting access to pre-release stuff, and running code on your own hardware. The fee probably doesn't even cover the overhead on the program. Apple makes their money through the App Store and selling hardware. Unity is getting all of their money from licensing their software.

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It doesn't really do any of those things, though. It's an arbitrary fee. Look at Google's Play Store fee by comparison.

While I agree it's not a fair comparison, the Unity fee at least provides substantially more value than Apple's, like covering the publishing process for multiple console platforms, which is almost always relatively expensive.

Google doesn't really do a manual review of every submitted app (I don't know how many minutes/hours they spend on a single submission but I guess the cost of this alone might add up to more than $100 if the account is used to submit a lot of apps/new versions per year)

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