Comment by PakG1

I actually am surprised that services like Steam, the Apple App Store, and Google Play are able to command as high a margin as they do for sales commission. I mean, it's obviously possible because it's reality, but it's nonintuitive. I wonder if it will continue to be that way. For iOS, you don't really have a way to install apps outside the app store without jailbreaking, but you do for macOS, and I've seen a number of high-profile macOS titles decide they're not going to sell on the App Store anymore. That's gotta damage the moat somehow and thereby damage the App Store's ability to maintain its commission margin (eventually?). I wonder what it would take to get that to happen on the iOS side. So long as the iPhone remains a market leader, I guess I don't see anything changing.