Comment by stahtops

There is no way that developer costs of $100/year + a $2k Mac is the reason why all the money gets spent on iOS.

“Keep prices high”. The top grossing iOS apps are all like $1-2. That is not high. In fact, from what I could tell on sensortower.com, apps from the same developers were priced identically between stores, and the average prices of Android top grossing apps were higher. Probably because of the LOW VOLUME, not related to overhead.

You’re trying hard to find reasons to blame Apple for an active marketplace. What exactly do you want to achieve?

The PlayStore on iOS? The free market doesn’t work. It’s a myth. I’d much rather pay $10 for a good app here or there than have a store full of “free” or $0.05 trash where it’s not worth anyone’s time to invest in building something good.