> Apple was basically playing the "whoa, we don't sell apps, we just make an app store. They buy apps from the developers" card.
> This is technically true.
Technically? It doesn't look like it. Apple decides what is sold, how it is sold, IF it is sold, and what the thing sold may do. It will decide how to take payment, Apple takes payment and pays something else to the app developer after 30% and more. Apple decides when the developer gets money. Apple may retroactively cancel the sale within 90 days. Since the developer is paid within 60 days, it will do so.
Apple is what is bills the customer and Apple(or one of Apple's many subsidiaries) is who pays the developer.
Does the developer know who buys the things? No. They just give an infinite supply of widgets to Apple who sells them and gives the developer a cut.
Technically? It doesn't look like it. Apple decides what is sold, how it is sold, IF it is sold, and what the thing sold may do. It will decide how to take payment, Apple takes payment and pays something else to the app developer after 30% and more. Apple decides when the developer gets money. Apple may retroactively cancel the sale within 90 days. Since the developer is paid within 60 days, it will do so.
Apple is what is bills the customer and Apple(or one of Apple's many subsidiaries) is who pays the developer.
Does the developer know who buys the things? No. They just give an infinite supply of widgets to Apple who sells them and gives the developer a cut.