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The whole point of this exercise was that a bigger cut of the app revenue goes to the developers though.
You know, since the phone manufacturer and payment provider actually doesn't do any of the development work on the app...
No, but they do gate keep what can/can't be installed on their phone quite aggressively.
That's why there isn't a single torrent client for iOS, for example.