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Yes, Apple's well-known 30% revenue sharing cut has been around for a long, long time.

It's not a "tax."

Calling it one is a shibboleth which declares your allegiance to Musk's marketing.

People have called it a tax long before Musk bought Twitter. And once you buy an iPhone, it's yours, so you shouldn't have to pay Apple 30% of all financial transactions you ever conduct with it.

Once you buy a car, it’s yours, so you shouldn’t have to pay gas companies 100% of all fuel transactions you ever use to drive it anywhere.

Apps are the lifeblood of a smartphone. Everyone who buys an iPhone knows they’ll be spending money on apps too, and the 30%, or 15%, or free or whatever is hardly a secret to those that care about it.

The manufacturer of your car doesn't get a 30% cut of the price of the fuel it uses.

There's a case for Apple taking a cut on app sales themselves. There's a lot less of a case for them taking such a giant cut of sales within the apps.

Obviously they can, but in my opinion it's an absurdly high cut.

>Calling it one is a shibboleth which declares your allegiance to Musk's marketing.

Nope. This is a very long running thing, Musk is just the current high profile face of it.

You are right.

It's still not a tax.

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