Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
Other news on this has quotes from Tim Cook saying that they&#x27;d have to find a way to track purchases on IOS and bill developers so that Apple still gets their cut when using other payment processors.<p>For me, this is way over the line.  If they want to charge developers to be on their store, fine.  I don&#x27;t have a problem with that.  And charging for using them as a payment processor makes sense.  Charging for using Apple services makes sense.<p>But charging them simply because they make money while on a device that an end-user owns?  No.  Apple doesn&#x27;t own that device any more.  They sold it to someone.  Apple owns the store, and the infrastructure.  If a developer isn&#x27;t using that infrastructure, they don&#x27;t owe anything.<p>I&#x27;d be fine with however they want to charge, if there was another way to be on IOS.<p>I&#x27;d be less happy with developers being able to use their own payment processors and be on the app store for free.  There&#x27;s a chilling anti-free-speech type of thing going on there.<p>But I&#x27;m dead set against <i>both</i> of those happening at once, as it currently is.