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Epic Games vs. Apple Judgment Allows App Store Developers to Link to Alternative Payment Methods
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Good news for most. Tip of iceberg for apple. I expect things will get worse for them later. Ideally we shouldn’t have to use iTunes or Apple Pay for anything on iPhone. I know I don’t.
It was either this ruling or allow side loading of apps like on the Mac. So from the 39,000' view of things, Apple gets to keep its security model intact.
So, thanks for all your hard work Apple, but now you have to make it a free marketplace? Dumb
This is what App store revenues look like for the last few years. Apple's cut of 15-30% of in-app purchases will be diminished. This adds up to tens of billions of dollars over the foreseeable future.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/296226/annual-apple-app-store-revenue/
It's not the lazy users that drive change, but the sea of developers that will fight for every penny of their hard earned money.
Did Apple not create iOS? Why should Epic profit off that?
Bringing competition to the payment methods is good for everyone (but apple). Good decision!
But if the initial terms of the original contract are judged unlawful or unreasonable, which I thought was what Epic were pushing for the decision on?
Apple setup and developed all the infrastructure necessary for hosting and distributing apps on the AppStore but not allowing developers their own payment methods or even a link to outside payment options is very restrictive especially for content provider apps (news, music...)
Apple could charge a monthly flat fee on paid apps for hosting them on the AppStore irrespective of the app's sales price.
Apple could charge a monthly flat fee on paid apps for hosting them on the AppStore irrespective of the app's sales price.
Wow this is a blow for Apple.
I wonder what Steve Jobs would do - would he buy Epic, then fire everyone, and then close the business? That lad had some spite to him!
I wonder what Steve Jobs would do - would he buy Epic, then fire everyone, and then close the business? That lad had some spite to him!
They can link to outside payment sources but that doesn't mean Apple has to make it easy to unlock the stuff you bought from outside. They could just call it back to the app and unlock it, or they could make people redeem a code and go through a whole process that just makes it harder to buy stuff unless it's in the app. Apple may have to allow people to buy outside the app, but they don't have to make it easy for people to do it.
Good. Let it crash. I’ll just buy more. It’ll be back.Stock is crashing.
They also created macos and thankfully they haven’t forced tribute from any app that wants to be installed on it….yet.
They breached contract and lost. Its not going to be retroactive for what they did/ The judge was really clear during the case Epic went about it the wrong way and planned this out.
Apple can still choose not to allow Fortnite back as they breached TOS.
So if you run a windows desktop, and want to buy something from amazon, should Microsoft get a cut of every purchase? After all, MS created Windows.
With the $3.65M that Epic owes Apple, they just paid for Apple’s legal fees for the original lawsuit with enough left over to cover the appeal…
Interestingly, the biggest winner may not be Epic Games. It may be Amazon: this would allow the Kindle and ComiXology apps to access a store to buy electronic books and comic books directly, and not be forced to use a web version of the Amazon web site.
So just one count ruled against Apple ( which looks similar to the South Korean law)
but everything else is in apples favor. Ha ha. Suck it Epic. Especially Epics dream of an Open insecure iOS and its epic games store as well all gone. Sweeney must be crying now😂😂😂
P.S. in relation to this topic there is a anti Apple/pro epic games troll on Facebook by the name of Aurelio if anyone sees his posts on other apple fan pages on FB praising epic and hating Apple. Well I can’t wait for him to know that Apple largely won the case and he can stuff it
long live king apple.
but everything else is in apples favor. Ha ha. Suck it Epic. Especially Epics dream of an Open insecure iOS and its epic games store as well all gone. Sweeney must be crying now😂😂😂
P.S. in relation to this topic there is a anti Apple/pro epic games troll on Facebook by the name of Aurelio if anyone sees his posts on other apple fan pages on FB praising epic and hating Apple. Well I can’t wait for him to know that Apple largely won the case and he can stuff it
long live king apple.
Some people on here really need to read the whole decision: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21060631/apple-epic-judgement.pdf
Hardly, he will be a billionaire if he leaves tonight or in a decade. This isn't some sobering wake up call or even as irritating as getting a parking ticket. It's really nothing to Cook.
I tend to agree. This is a way better middle ground outcome than being forced to allow other stores and side loading.