competition is ager to see this companies leaving iOS XD
You can if you're able to. No one will come to your home and stop you from doing it. If your able to perform said tasks, your free to do so. You just lose access to any support from either company.
I don't believe Apple charges for any "physical" purchases via any App on the Store. They charge for IAP such as game currency or DLP. But, if you're receiving a physical good or service (Uber, Tickets, Food, Banking, toys, etc). There is no fee for the developer to pay Apple.
Isn't Epic being a bit hypocritical in this? Whining about Apples App Store when you can only get Epic's games using their trash launcher?
Apple has failed to properly comply with a court order that requires non-App Store purchasing options be made available to third-party developers, Epic Games has told a judge (via Bloomberg).
The Supreme Court earlier this month declined to hear separate requests from both Apple and Epic Games in their three-year-long lawsuit against each other regarding App Store rules. As a result, Apple is able to continue to disallow third-party payment processing within apps, but it must allow developers to direct customers to a non-App Store purchasing option for digital goods.
Apple has since made changes to its U.S. App Store policies, and now allows apps to feature a single link to a developer website that leads to an in-app purchase alternative. However, Apple plans to continue to collect a 12 to 27 percent commission on content bought this way. The commission applies to transactions for digital goods and services that take place on a developers website within seven days after a user taps through an External Purchase Link to an external website.
Epic likely wishes to contest this aspect of the change in particular, as well as Apple's implementation of them. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney on January 16 took to X (formerly Twitter) to criticize the changes as soon as they were announced, and said that it would dispute Apple's "bad-faith compliance plan" in District Court.
According to Bloomberg, Epic said in a filing Tuesday that it "disputes Apple's compliance" with previously ordered changes and said it will explain the "non-compliance" in a forthcoming filing.
Meanwhile, Apple wants Epic Games to pay $73.4 million in legal fees after Apple won the antitrust case brought against it by the North Carolinian games maker. Apple bases the claim on Epic's original violation of its developer agreement, when its Fortnite game offered an in-app payment alternative on the App Store. Epic previously accepted that it would owe damages if it lost its antitrust claims against Apple. Now that it has, Apple has issued the bill.
Article Link: Apple Failed to Comply With App Store Court Order, Epic Tells Judge
Unless you're the reincarnation of Gandhi or Buddha and have divested yourself of all worldly possessions, you're selfish as well. It's life--you breathe your share of air and eat your share of food and consume your share of the wealth that comes with your gainful employment, and by all your actions have your share of a negative impact on the environment.
They don’t as it’s completely arbitrary. What do you think would have happened if Epic had opens up the store, and instead of user purchasing digital content the user instead bought a physical code or QR code on a pice of paper that ether got:
Of course not, but I try to follow my principles and long term benefits. Being selfish isn’t a bad thing, it’s all about good and bad incentives. That is why I’m for regulating away bad behavior and trying to reward good incentives
Well not really. Only the EU, those needle threading micro-regulators.
Anything "physical" in that sense would/should pass. But, it would be cumbersome for the end user. Hence the developer is paying Apple for that simplicity (among other things). I think part of the problem with companies like EPIC is that they have moved away from charging a set price for a game. And now give games away for free. With the expectation that the end user will eventually pay MORE for DLC and or other "features" within the game over a longer period of time. Which in the AppStore would skirt them around paying Apple or Google anything and having a free ride on their systems and access to end users. And that digital transaction being within the purview of Apple/Googles systems. Isn't going to help any of the other developers that DO get to ride for free. As they don't charge for the app. Apple/Google would exist for EPIC to make money, and not share any of it. And let's face it. A DLC costs what to make? A dance move for Fortnite?. They do it once and sell it a billion times? They could make WAY more on the DLC than any game they would sell for $49.99 or whatever. Maybe another way to look at it is like a Toll on a highway. You use it you pay for it. There are "free" sections or parts of the road. But they tend to be out of the way or not as convenient to use.
I"m assuming your referring to Steam. Which is a store that sells games. And they have their own business model. I'm sure they get a cut for games sold on the store. Maybe not as much as Apple's 30%. But they make something. Same as Best Buy (in the US) gets a cut of games sold in their stores. TV's, Stereos, mobile phones, etc.
I think we all share a basic understanding that business should be more morally obligated to the greater good when and where ever possible. However, a business's purpose is to make money. They are required to follow all laws in which they operate. But, making money is the reason for being. In the US we lean more in favor of companies than maybe the EU.
Storage is dirt cheap, it would cost pennies, why is amazon charging me so much money for cloud storage ?
Epic can create their own phone, OS, app store and give apps and phone for free.
So can i sell my games on XBOX, Nintendo, and Play Station for free ?
not really, businesses give discount for customers who order more some times.
No I mean steam the store you can get in the AppStore allows you to buy steam games on my iPhone using the steam app I downloaded from the AppStore. Steam takes 30% on sales
On the contrary I heard it’s very cheap to run of Amazon servers. I know there’s games being run 24 hours a day on Amazon servers and they have a higher amount of usage. So what type of storage you using that’s creating that much more that you’re complaining about. Just wondering
About 50/50 (in the EU where there is a significant higher market share for Android than in the US).
