Costco is publicly traded and has a maximum markup of 14% for selling you physical retail goods. Apple tries to charge developers 30% for hosting a bunch of exes in cloud storage.

Apple is a piece of shit company run by piece of shit people. They have for their entire history disregarded environmentalism or fair pricing, and have continuously built intentional incompatibilities to try and gouge consumers out of more money.

They still owe society at large hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in wasted time and costs for their decision to reverse headphone jack polarity for no reason 20 years ago when they introduce the iPod. Let alone every other walled garden bullshit move and 30% app store mafia fee they’ve charged in the two decades since.

*Privately owned companies are such pieces of shit companies.