The Windows App Store has iTunes in its listing. Do Microsoft get a cut of every song Apple sells through iTunes? I doubt it.
Also, Apple Music on Android uses its own payment system, not Google Play's version of in app purchases.
Apple are quite happy to be the exception on other people's platforms.
Amazon and eBay sell things through their respective free to download apps from the App Store, but I don’t think Apple takes a cut of those transactions. That’s what I’d think most closely relates to your iTunes analogy. I could be wrong in regards to apples cut because I just don’t know.
All these emails reveal is that these are scumbag companies.
The last bit about promoting Epic reinforces what I said in another thread. Apple was VERY friendly to Epic and always promotes them at iPhone keynotes. Little did they know they were sleeping with the devil.
Apple should take gaming to first-party and take it VERY seriously so as*holes like these have less control over product damage. Removing Fortnite was petty and although it doesn’t affect us AI readers much it did affect iPhone users who did play the game hours a day. Apple should invest 5 billion into first-party studios and game engines as a platform security measure and ecosystem stickiness. Throw in a killer M1 Apple TV with first-party M1 games and these game studios will have less leverage against Apple. Schiller denied this request, stating in an email that "We run the store, we collect the revenue."
Pretty much sums up the logic of this trial.
Yep. Apple should create it's own game engine, just to take market share away from unreal and fuck over Epic. There's no reason why Apple can't, they can hire the best people to do this and give them a blank cheque. It's absolutely nauseating how Epic tried to weaponize it's 13yr old user base against Apple for PR purposes, and how they manufactured the whole controversy out of nothing. They don't give a shit about their users, and they opted to have the app pulled and to screw them over, instead of paying Apple the fair fee just like every single other developer. All this, just so they can monetize Apple's user base for free, and pocket 100% of fortnite micro transactions. This is what this entire shitty trial is based on. Sweeney admitted he would have accepted a special deal from Apple, proving that his "I'm doing this for the small devs!" was a complete and utter lie.
Better still open source a game engine under Swift. Find a few good willing studios (and tech leads in them) to pay them to foster development of all the parts needed to make Swift a killer platform for games, with lightweight runtimes for as many platforms as they can.
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