Untrue. They only take a piece of IAP, which is standard business practice.

As an example, if you want the easy way to sign up for a VPN with an easy to follow subscription so you know when payments are due and on what date, purchase the plan via an IAP, but be prepared to pay a convenience fee.

Or, you could go to the VPN website and purchase it directly. It’s a few more inconvenient and you have to keep track of that subscription independently, but you don’t have to pay Apple anything for it.

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It should also be mentioned that the 30% comes from the developer, there is no additional charge to the consumer. The developer could add that 30% to the overall price which means the consumer would pay for it, but that’s a gripe I would take up with the dev, not Apple.

How would 30% "come from the developer" of a non-custodial wallet? What developer, where is he involved in the payment loop?

Someone created the app, someone put it in the AppStore, that’s the person that pays the fee.

As I said earlier, the developer is completely free to modify their app price to compensate for the 30%, but that also means the customer is free to not purchase it.

They need to decide what is more profitable, adding the 30% to the app price and losing overall customers or paying the 30% themselves and growing revenue by volume.

Neither