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  • Judge 'inclined' to grant protection to Unreal Engine, not Fortnite

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    Pascalxx said:
    This sounds like Epic has a separate developer account for their Unreal Engine team which is marketed under a separate entity and Apple has threated to close both accounts, despite only one violating the App Store rules. So maybe they have a case after all?

    They would indeed, if Epic Games International was a genuine, independent third-party. I don't think that EGI is independent of Epic's control, though.

    AppleInsider said:
    Epic's lawyers likened Apple's in-app purchase strategy to Expedia taking 30% of both the hotel rate and room service charges.

    Two problems with this argument - firstly, room service is wholly done by the hotel, Expedia does nothing to help room service, but IAPs are done by Apple, so Apple are providing a service. But more importantly, Expedia has competitors just like Apple does. Expedia would be perfectly within their rights to start charging 30% of room service charges, and if the hoteliers don't like that, they are free to stop using Expedia, and continue using Expedia's competitors (if they want).
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  • iPhone 7 owners say phones producing 'hissing' sound under heavy task loads

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    Duh, it's the cooling fan.
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  • Epic expert estimates Apple's App Store profit to be nearly 80%

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    entropys said:
    Anyway while I suspect the App Store has good margins like all Apple endeavours, I bet there are a few costs conveniently left out to make a highly political headline figure. 

    Yes, very astute. The cost that they are conveniently leaving out is ... the payments to app developers.

    Apple retains only 30% of App Store revenue for purchases and 15% for subs over one year. Even if it cost them nothing to run the App Store, and nobody ever subscribed to anything, that would mean that an ABSOLUTE CEILING on their profits would be ... 30% !! How can they make 75% profit if more than 70% of revenue is immediately returned to developers?

    Take into account subscriptions, costs to run the App Store including the costs to host, transfer and support apps (including free apps which Apple gets nothing for) and the likely true App Store profit is going to be somewhere around 20% and possibly lower.
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  • Using emoji makes you more likable, study finds

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    Using emoji makes you more likable TO PEOPLE WHO ALSO USE EMOJI, study finds

    This is not a survey of a representative sample of people who receive messages. It's a survey of emoji users who - unsurprisingly - have positive feelings about emoji use.
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  • Australian court is the latest to attack Apple on behalf of rich corporations

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    nubus said:
    Would we ever accept an ISP blocking some sites and features like local shopping "to protect us"? Do we want or need a gatekeeper on apps? A warning perhaps - but a gatekeeper?  And the 30%... that Apple then lowered to 15% after massive political pressure.

    Yes we WOULD accept an ISP doing that, if the blocks were known to consumers before they signed up, because informed consumers do not need protecting from themselves.

    And in fact THERE ARE many ISPs who block some sites - family friendly ISPs for example - that consumers can and do sign up with in the knowledge that certain sites will be blocked. People are choosing to sign up with these ISPs in full knowledge, just as people choose to buy iPhones in full knowledge of the walled garden.
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  • Apple challenges injunction against self-preferencing services

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    tht said:
     Good judgements are never made when applicable data is excluded.
    Indeed. A recent very-high-profile defamation case proved this exact point.

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