Does App Store tax make Apple a monopoly? U.S. and Europe plan on investigating

The 30% cut that Apple takes for in-app payments and subscriptions paid for through Apple's App Store payment platform (which drops to 15% for subscriptions after year one) is a real point of contention with developers and consumers. Because you can't sideload apps from a third-party app store like you can with Android, Apple is being probed by anti-trust investigators here and abroad and is who feel that the so-called Apple Tax combined with the inability to sideload an app raises the prices they pay to purchase a paid app from the App Store.

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