Google and Apple both provide a very important service to their customers by supporting the Play Store and App Store respectively. That’s not exactly an easy thing to do since they have to make sure whatever software is on there is safe for users to download and enjoy, and there are millions of apps on each store. For that, the companies take a cut from each financial transaction performed using their services.

That money is coming out of developers’ pockets and naturally, some are looking at ways to avoid it altogether. This sparked a discussion if the portion of the money that’s going ...