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It's not just that they're taking 30%. It's that they're disallowing authors to charge any more than they do anywhere else, and then taking 30%. So to make the same amount of money on iPhone, you would have to increase your prices everywhere else.



Not allowing to charge more anywhere else is a win for me. Authors who don't like this are free to skip iOS entirely, no?


They probably will. Which was probably the point :P




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