How about you forgo getting paid for your work for three months to help your employer out? Will you die as a result, probably not, so we're all good right?

I think I wouldn't work for free.

I did say I understood why they do not want to do it, I'm still curious what the actual impact on their revenues would be (or can we not talk about that because the situation involves a bigger company that has lots of money?).

The flip side is people are saying "Oh, but Apple will pay 1.5% more in royalties".

Oh, good. It'll only take 66 months to recoup that after a three month trial.

We know that Apple could most definitely continue operating with the very slightly lower profits of paying for the three months.

Which is completely orthogonal to my question about whether the characterization being made about the impact on indies is correct or not.