>Nobody is making money selling phones that don't have apps. Apps are 100% necessary for a smartphone to survive.

Now yes. In the start not.

Nobody is making money selling PCs without apps either. Are desktop app programmers demanding a pay cut from PC sales?

I was being facetious about getting 30% from Apple.

My point is, that they are and always have been assholes to devs, who they need.

I don't know, as a dev I like their APIs, tooling, market access and efforts to improve their environment (ObjC 2, now Swift) very much, thank you.