>Without apps, Apple has nothing.

Actually Apple managed to make the iPod a huge success, and the iPhone for the first year too, without any apps. They built a market of billions without any apps. Only then did apps appeared with the first SDK.

Nobody is making money selling phones that don't have apps. Apps are 100% necessary for a smartphone to survive.

Apple simply could not have a successful mobile platform without apps.

>Nobody is making money selling phones that don't have apps. Apps are 100% necessary for a smartphone to survive.

Now yes. In the start not.

Nobody is making money selling PCs without apps either. Are desktop app programmers demanding a pay cut from PC sales?

I was being facetious about getting 30% from Apple.

My point is, that they are and always have been assholes to devs, who they need.

I don't know, as a dev I like their APIs, tooling, market access and efforts to improve their environment (ObjC 2, now Swift) very much, thank you.

A sense of entitlement always fascinates me. Yours isn't as much fun as the variety you can find reading gaming forums, but it's still making me smile. Thank you!

I think of the dolts who vote for EA as "Worst Company" when EA is nothing like Comcast or Time Warner Cable or even Seaworld or Monsanto.