But why should they be the ones deciding whether an app constitutes as crap or useful?
It is the same fee nearly every store charges - both digital and physical stores like Sony, Nintendo, Best Buy, etc. There is nothing predatory, unusual or monopolistic about Apple's fees. You can argue it's too high, but they're in no way unique and Epic pays them to every other store it deals with.
additionally epic doesn't argue is should be lower, epic argues that there should be none.
I thought you might have been wrong at first..but you are right. My guess is that someone reported the one that was warned and not the other...
*User Warned: Low-effort drive-by post.*
*nothing*
yeah this has ramifications that touch a whole lot more than just epic and apple. It could mean serious changes for any other console, online service in existence beyond apps and games.
It's really mindboggling how anyone thinks they can benefit off of someone else's platform for free or thinks they can just make up their own rules. Hate Apple all you want (not you, hypothetically) but they gained that marketshare for a reason.
it's about their control of the entire iphone app market, not just epic.
You're all over the place. You started by arguing that this won't affect consoles because they're not essential. Then you pivoted to 30% being too high! Now you're saying well it might be the norm but they don't really deserve it.
Sure, where the only other city is owned by another single company, and where leaving and setting up in the other city has a high opportunity cost and you aren't allowed to take any of your stuff with you.
FWIW I don't believe there's any conspiracy at work here - I reported one and didn't see the other at the time (but have reported it since so maybe it gets actioned, maybe not, who knows, but it probably should be)
But Fortnite is on more than two devices. Also, yes, I believe Apple should have some control over what is on their store. Epic is saying they should have no control over their store and receive no compensation whatsoever.
Can't play PS3 games on a PS4 either, and that's the same company and same product line... I don't think the argument that you can't use old software on new hardware holds much value regardless if it is a lock in when the go to answer is "just use the old hardware for the old software" and everyone does it, as is the nature with software.
This gets to a fundamental question about economic systems. Currently most of us live under an economic system where companies employ people to make money, and not under one where companies earn money to employ people. Right or wrong, we just don't live in that world.
Oh yes, the hard work of being a shareholder. I don't know who you think is getting compensated with all this excess income but that's the answer for you. Apple enjoys >80% margins on their app store, that doesn't sound very hard compared to markets where actual competition exists. In fact margins like that aren't supposed to exist in functioning free markets and they are if anything an indication of an anti-competitive monopolistic situation.
It's good then that we have an objective measure of how much effort they put into their app store: their margins. it's simply the fact that whatever resources they put into maintaining the store is but a drop in the ocean compared to their revenue, and so that's how much weight should be given to their contributions.
Software compatibility wasn't the point, I was talking about opportunity cost. People here talk about switching platforms as if it's like pushing a button, while ignoring the cost of getting a new phone, the time cost in learning a new system and setting everything up, the cost of losing access to apps, the social cost of being on different platforms(some people refuse to use non-native messaging for example) and so on. To anyone but coddled upper middle class era users changing the smartphone platform is a massive headache that nobody wants to go through.
Breach of contract is breach of breach contract. It doesn't take a judge to determine whether epic acted outside of their contract (Epic themselves admitted as much but says it doesn't matter)
