Apple and Epic Return to Court as Judges Question Prior Rulings

[Bigbuddy1]

Epic, that wants to pay no commission to Apple wants to pay a commission to Apple. Got it!

Hey buddy
The epic ceo asked apple to negotiate on the commission apple then told him to do one so please stop revising this and when apple wouldn’t then that’s when they went to court

 

[Bigbuddy1]

Folks in the EU that would like to play Fortnite on their iPhones would likely disagree on this point. They’re forced to use the Epic Games store or some other non-Apple Store. Customers in the EU that would prefer to use the App Store? It would appear they no longer have that choice.

That has already proven to be true.

I assume you have asked everyone in the EU that they would rather use the iOS App Store
Or is it just feels?

 

[Sophisticatednut]

Apple gives developers access to hundreds of millions of customers that have proven they’re willing to pay for digital content. The developer has to bring their skills/ideas, the price of a Mac, and $99. Beyond that, if the developer doesn’t make a sale, Apple also doesn’t make money. If the developer does end up actually creating something desirable (which depends on their skills/ideas/code abilities of course) and makes, say $20,000 in one month, they get $17,000. Offsetting $3,000 in order to have $17,000? I don’t know too many people that would turn down that cut.

Now, here’s the real question. Are they actually able to take advantage of the opportunity and eventually make a living wage or much, much more? The truth, for very many developers (the vast majority of developers, in fact), is no. You could direct hundreds/thousands of dollars in their direction (there’s no way to make it any easier) and they just wouldn’t be able to profit from it.

They’re most certainly free to keep trying as long as they like, but, and some may find this part hard to believe… everyone doesn’t become a star in athletic pursuits, everyone’s not an intellectual powerhouse, and not everyone has what it takes to be a developer with the abilities to make a profit when given access to hundreds of millions of people who, again, have spent considerable sums previously. If their idea of being a developer is “guaranteed payday made easy for me”, reality would like to sit them down and have a heart to heart.

And for Apple they have no costs irrespective of the developer makes it big or not at all. And as example epic offers the developer to keep 100% of revenue untill 1 million a year. That is secondary revenue and exposure opertunties. Or if you’re a developer that is in a competitive market you would absolutely want to lower the cost. And as we can see there hundreds and thousands of developers who are willing to forgo the 30% commission by doing their sales personally so they circumvent the commission and can either keep the 30% to incurred their margins or lower the price and be more competitive

Folks in the EU that would like to play Fortnite on their iPhones would likely disagree on this point. They’re forced to use the Epic Games store or some other non-Apple Store. Customers in the EU that would prefer to use the App Store? It would appear they no longer have that choice.

That has already proven to be true.

There’s plenty of fortnight liken games I can play. If Facebook gets their own Facebook store, then I’m sorry but I’m not downloading it and moves on. If steam releases iOS games then I would move every game purchase from the AppStore to the steam store as it’s 1.000c better in every shape or form to the AppStore.