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9 months ago
Basically all illegal drugs started as legal drugs aka medicine (Opium, Morphine, Heroin, etc). The distinction is a relatively recent development. Even today a drug store is a reputable business. A drug den not so much.
They are greedy fascists but they are not stupid.
If you are able to listen to a German podcast, I highly recommend Jung & Naiv’s Episode with Kai Strittmatter on this topic and China in general.
Well, they do provide the AppStore and the whole underlying infrastructure. So a fee in and off itself is not unreasonable.
However, since the AppStore is the only channel for selling/downloading apps it reeks of monopoly (which Apple is rightly being investigated for).