The App Store tax
If you want to put apps on your iPhone, there’s only one way to do it without voiding your warranty: the Apple App Store. And the App Store comes with a special tax, 15% for developers that make less than a million dollars a year, and 30% for everyone else.
Guess who ends up paying that tax? iPhone users. Paid apps and subscriptions are more expensive, and Apple doesn’t even let developers tell you that you can get a discount if you sign up for subscriptions using their websites. Epic Games sued Apple over its App Store fees, in fact, drawing widespread support from other tech companies such as Spotify.
The most ridiculous example of the consequences might be on the Netflix app. If you don’t already have an account, there’s no way to make one using the iPhone app, because Netflix doesn’t want to charge customers 30% more, and it isn’t allowed to tell you about it.
