This is like failing restaurants who can't hire people putting up signs saying 'giving away stimulus checks every 2 weeks apply inside'.

They aren't cutting him a check, they are installing themselves as a middle man between him and his money. Apple did none of the work, but take almost half the money.

Remove the app store, it's all spam and ads anyways and search is damn near impossible.

I'd say they should be paying him since his apps bring in so many customers, and he has to do all the legwork.

If people stop making iOS apps, thr machine stops.

There are a shit ton more developers than there are platforms to develop on.