> Take away all the apps from iPhone and what is it? A brick Saying that Apple needs devs more than devs need Apple is as stupid as saying the opposite. Is the same chicken/egg game. They both coexist and no one can exist without the other. Do you really think that dev can just trash iPhone apps and send a middle finger to Apple? I’ll tell you why it’s BS: 1 - iPhone users are more willing to pay for an app than android users. Given that Google take the same cut, you are just going to shoot yourself in the foot having less users. 2 - The iOS market share even if not as big as the android one, it’s still huge compared to what WS Phone was at its peak. Do you really think your app is that important that the average user is gonna buy and entire new phone (with an OS that he potentially never used) just to use your app? 3 - If you think ALL the devs can leave Apple, to invalidate pt 2, you are delusional. The moment you leave the store, another dev is just gonna eat your user base and profit from it.

The success of the platform always goes around the user base, not the developers. Developers make money from users, so the developers follow the user, not the other way around.