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What's the context and TLDR?


Context is that Apple has two things:

A) Devices, with a large market share, restricted to a particular app store, where Apple takes a pay cut of 30%.

B) Strong restrictions on what is allowed inside this app store and no hesitation to ban anyone from that app store for sometimes the weirdest reason.

Naturally no one likes to pay apple the 30% cut and even more so no one likes to be forced to play by Apple's rules to distribute software to iPhones etc.

Now Epic Games actually tries to fight back. Study law and read the documents if you need more details ;).

My take on this: Apple is obviously acting in a manner that prevents fair competition. They have a point to be paid and they have a point to enact certain policies. But taken together with the outright ban of competing stores, this is obviously a market dominating position. I guess they can have two of the three and they should go for policies, single app store and a self-cost price. But they probably will settle for single app store and high price.


Epic bypassed Apple payments on iOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143346

In response Apple removed them from the app store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146902




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