I am curious how much running the App store costs. According to Statista [0], its gross revenue in 2021 was 85.1B. If this is the right number to use, then Apple gets between ca. 12.5 and 25.33B from it (for a 15% and 30% cut, respectively.)

I know costs and prices are somewhat independent of each other, but even the 12.5B seems like a lot. I wish I knew how much App store's technical infrastructure costs.

0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/296226/annual-apple-app-...