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Banking and government apps aren’t paying App Store fees, beyond trivial amounts in developer account fees.


Maybe not the App Store fees, but they are paying the apple tax.

* $100/year for the developer account. You may think this is nothing for a bank, and you may be right, but it's still $100 more than it should be.

* MacBooks for every developer that should be able to work on the mobile app and every QA person that should be able to test the app on an emulator, even if they already have a windows/linux laptop. The Apple devtools only run on macos. There is no choice. If the org was not already running MacBooks they will be forced to do so now, and invest in everything that comes with it.


This is irrelevant for the case. The question is if Apple has a monopolistic position.




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