> If Apple let developers tell users about other payment methods, Cook said later, “we would in essence give up our total return on our IP.”
Apple believes ("insists"?) that they deserve a cut of your app's revenue--however you might collect the money--because your app is using their "IP" in the form of all the libraries and tooling they nigh unto force you to use to build apps that run on their phone; like, to them, UIKit (I presume), Metal (which many people are only using because Apple refused to implement OpenGL or Vulcan), and (this is rich) apparently even Xcode (wtf: that thing sucks ;P) is so awesome that they deserve 30% of your revenue, and they spent a bunch of time during their testimony trying to show the various ways Epic used--and even liked--their software.
Apple believes ("insists"?) that they deserve a cut of your app's revenue--however you might collect the money--because your app is using their "IP" in the form of all the libraries and tooling they nigh unto force you to use to build apps that run on their phone; like, to them, UIKit (I presume), Metal (which many people are only using because Apple refused to implement OpenGL or Vulcan), and (this is rich) apparently even Xcode (wtf: that thing sucks ;P) is so awesome that they deserve 30% of your revenue, and they spent a bunch of time during their testimony trying to show the various ways Epic used--and even liked--their software.