A service to whom? Protecting users is a service to users, not to developers. This is a selling point of iPhone, and thus Apple receives money from users when they pay for the iPhone.

Think about it this way: totally free apps with no IAP get reviewed by Apple too, and there's no charge to the developer except the $99 Apple Developer Program membership fee, which Epic already pays too.

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cyberax 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Think about it this way: totally free apps with no IAP get reviewed by Apple too, and there's no charge to the developer except the $99 Apple Developer Program membership fee

Yearly fee. And about $500 a year in hardware depreciation, because you can reasonably develop for Apple _only_ on Apple hardware.

This is _way_ more than Microsoft has ever charged, btw.

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someguyiguess 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Protecting users is absolutely in the best interest of developers.

	▲	lapcat 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Forcing developers to go through Apple's arbitrary, capricious, slow review process is absolutely not in the best interest of developers.