And it is still calm... but truthful as well. Nor am I ranting.
I will apologize, Puget... because I think, now, it probably was not you. But the FUD spreaders blur togethers... especially when the phraseology is the same. I have refuted that canard at least twice before... but it keeps popping up.
Apple does not cheat its developers. However, if they produce an app that does not do what they claim it does, they do have the right to reclaim their costs.
Fair enough?
So far there are very few developers who have complained that Apple has retained the 30%... and many who have said they haven't.
Is troubling. Especially in the case I linked. Functionality of the application did not change, and Apple approved - and sold - the app for 4 months before yanking it. And since Apple is the sole arbiter of when that happens, and sole arbiter if the developer has to "pay back 100%", well, I know I wouldn't develop for them.
They decide if you can sell, they decide for how long you sell, they can change their decisions at any time, and YOU carry the financial responsibility and impact for their decisions. Not cool at all. Makes sense why so many developers are moving to Android.
Also, it confirms that Apple has a remote-removal as well - pull from the App store, pull from your phone. With my WinMo phone, I don't have a pretty store, but if the app is pulled I still have it; it's mine, I paid for it, I have a local copy of the application that cannot be removed.