Where can I find more information about this infrastructure tax?
Because I highly doubt that Apple actually needs 30% to pay for the app store infrastructure.
And why are you mixing this with the OS API? I could just as well say that Apple needs some kind of OS anyways to be able to sell their expensive hardware.
Also there are certain categories of apps that are allowed to use other billing providers. Why don't they have to pay for the OS API's and R&D?
I don't think anyone is arguing that the 30% is the actual cost to Apple, there's no question there's tons of profit baked in there. But Apple is providing services for that 30% such as download hosting, billing, collections, subscription management, etc.
Of course you can, I have such an app in the store. A telephony app where you can access all features without the app. (You just dial one of our local numbers and that will be mapped to a foreign number)
Because I highly doubt that Apple actually needs 30% to pay for the app store infrastructure.
And why are you mixing this with the OS API? I could just as well say that Apple needs some kind of OS anyways to be able to sell their expensive hardware.
Also there are certain categories of apps that are allowed to use other billing providers. Why don't they have to pay for the OS API's and R&D?