When we propose alternatives the answer is that they want to protect customers.

But they don’t protect their cash cow from massive daily influxes of scam apps. It’s better one million scam apps generating 50k per month and drowning my two or three apps for which I spent months of work than a few thousand quality apps from which everybody would profit.

Let’s be real it takes a special kind of mad developer to try to make a business that relies on the AppStore. First if you are unlucky you get rejected on day one or two. And if you aren’t and are wildly popular you risk Apple copying your business model.

Because deep down some people at Apple despise the App Store developers and think they can do much better. This has been at the core of Apple culture for ages.

Anyway we legit indie developers who care about our products get drowned in irrelevance. Who cares.