The problem isn’t even that they want to charge 30% for processing app payments. They can charge whatever they want for their own services.
The problem is that Apple prevents users from installing any apps from outside their own app store, then bans developers from using any other service but Apple to process payments. It’s anticompetitive 101.
If Apple allowed 3rd party app stores or let apps implement their own payment processing, there would be no issue here.
Nobody has beef with the annual developer fee.
The problem isn’t even that they want to charge 30% for processing app payments. They can charge whatever they want for their own services.
The problem is that Apple prevents users from installing any apps from outside their own app store, then bans developers from using any other service but Apple to process payments. It’s anticompetitive 101.
If Apple allowed 3rd party app stores or let apps implement their own payment processing, there would be no issue here.