Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]
Hacker News readers are a pretty biased sample of people -- they generally have direct interests in lowering commissions paid because they run businesses paying such commissions.   And advocating that any platform provider is a monopoly restricting free exercise of selling goods.  Often, the arguments will be phrased in terms of &quot;should&quot; or &quot;fair&quot; or &quot;can&#x27;t&quot;.<p>But this is the oldest position in the book and is a fight that comes naturally with commercial activity -- everyone wants to not have a middleman, and fight against it.<p>The question is, are you entitled legally to have some certain % charged to you?  As a matter of &quot;fairness&quot;?  Is a platform that controls access to a fraction of mobile device software sales an exclusionary monopoly?  Has that prevented you from selling software elsewhere, or exercising your trade as a programmer?   I personally (and I have no financial interests either way) think the issue is not as principled as some people make it out to be.