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Re:Apple has paid over $2 billion to app developers, $12 bil... by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:28AM (#2116069)
> Really, you think its worth their cut, just to operate the store?

That's not all they do, though. They build the platform and heavily market it, too.

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Re:Apple has paid over $2 billion to app developers, $12 bil... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:35AM (#2116096)
They get paid for their hardware. Everybody else does too - phones, Android. Apple adds to that a 'company store' model that is unjustified.

They do it only because they can get away with it.

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