I'm a MacOS newbie and my experience with the App Store made me think that they've given up completely. It's incredibly slow, lacks a way to do things programmatically like Debian's `dist-upgrade` or the ability to automatically download and install security updates. Afaik most developers who work on a mac prefer either homebrew or downloading .dmg images.

How is having a choice a worst experience? Can you even use Firefox on iOS? I don't know how Apple gets away with so much... maybe because of all the politicians that they are legally allowed to buy?

Isn't the issue that Apple doesn't charge the same 30% surcharge to their own business units? Apple controls the entire ecosystem and can use it's control to force anti-competive terms on its competition.

IIRC Apple forces developer to offer same or lower price on other platform/web even they take 30%.

I'm not sure if any of those are really a result of the 30% charge. Or any of those are even real.

The worst experience I've had on Android is a free guitar tuner had ads, I uninstalled and moved on.