The main issue is not the exorbitant commission rate. Apple is hurting the consumers via its anti-competitive behavior with regards to what apps people are and are not allowed to install on a device that they've paid for. They are blocking value creation up and down the stack in a manner that "if we can't extract it, you're not allowed to create it."
But what's obviously anti-consumer to me is the in app payment system. They take their 30% cut and forbid you from even hinting at alternative means to pay for something to use in an app.
It means I have one place to manage subscriptions, one place with my credit card details, one place to manage family payments and all of it is from a company that can be trusted to do things in a secure and private way.
Do you really want the likes of PayPal or Epic to dominate mobile App Store payments ?
You are right. Choices and options just are messy. We should just have one company that does everything. Lets just merge everything together.
> all of it is from a company that can be trusted to do things in a secure and private way.
Are you for real? Apple is one of the greediest immoral and anti-competitive companies in the world. Not just in terms of tax avoidance via offshore shenanigans or slave labor in china, but their overall ethos of closed platform. But trust Saint Apple if you must.
> Do you really want the likes of PayPal or Epic to dominate mobile App Store payments?
What's wrong with nobody dominating anything and having competition?