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First iOS support 2 platforms since iOS 2: the web and the App Store. You deploy for the web, you deploy for iOS. (Direct quotes from a WWDC.)

Now assuming you’re talking about the App Store I don’t get your point anyway. For all platforms you’re gonna have to pay something at some point so all of them cost more than 0$.

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And how many features are unavailable for the web? It’s not apples to apples.

The point is that you don’t need to pay if you’re hosting a github pages pwa. The backend costs are shared.

There’s a reason Apple got into the credit card business, the extra a fee for every transaction model has been their core for a very long time, it was natural.