Seems pretty reasonable since they have paid nothing for a giant distribution mechanism for almost 15 years.
One of the chief complaints about the 15/30% fee has been that people like Meta pay nothing and are subsidized by everyone else.
One of the chief complaints about the 15/30% fee has been that people like Meta pay nothing and are subsidized by everyone else.
What you are describing is an unavoidable cost of doing business which Apple is entitled to charge developers for.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...
Using dumb file hosting on Backblaze this would cost somewhere near $9M (public pricing). A full app store would have additional costs but $70M still seems high.