I know this site is "MacRumors" but ... you'll do a lot better in life as a journalist if you take the bias out of your writing and stick to the facts. To everyone automatically taking Apple's side on this issue, I want to point out there is obviously a much bigger contract at play here than we know about that will likely come out (months or years from now) in discovery. This isn't simply an 'App Store Terms & Conditions/Policy' issue for Epic Games, it's a much bigger case on the free market, the rights of the publisher vs. the creator, and has vast ramifications for anyone who creates anything on any platform if this eventually ends up in the Supreme Court.
Tactically, neither company should have let this problem get this far. For Apple, towing the line is one thing as they clearly see the 30% as a core business due to its low maintenance and maximum profitability, but with a new PS5, X-Box, nVidia cards, Google Stadia, VR, their own ambitions in gaming, and the horrible legacy of Gaming on the Mac, this was the worst possible time to alienate gamers again, right when a new generation of systems/platforms are launching.
For Epic, by jumping the gun on the back of the Congressional Anti-Trust hearings without a coalition of at least EA/Activision, they look like petulant children that think the rules don't apply to them.
All of this ^ is my opinion and analysis. That's what's supposed to happen in a forum. But when you launch the premise with inherent bias instead of merely the debate, you damage the ensuing discussion before it even begins.
