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Maybe instead of buying up companies, Apple should be spending big bucks trying to recruit the best lawyers they can find because Apple is such a huge target due to the amount of money it makes.  Maybe a good legal team can draw up airtight contracts where if some developer breaks the rules they'll have to pay a huge amount of money.  I just don't understand this situation where a developer signs a contract or legal agreement and then has a huge stink about it down the line.  I'm sure Epic Games must have precisely understood the terms of the App Store contract.  They should just leave if they don't agree to the terms.  I mean, what's the point of the contract if the terms are going to be broken.  I wonder if most of the developers are dissatisfied with the terms of the App Store contract.  There must be thousands of developers on the App Store, so is there going to be a mass revolt soon because of Epic Games dissatisfaction?  I sure hope not.

I honestly don't know if a 30% fee is fair but I don't see why Apple should have to let other payment systems exist in the App Store.  If I was a customer and I didn't like how a store was being run, I wouldn't be outside protesting.  I would simply go to another store.  Maybe I'm wrong for thinking that way, but that's just how I feel.  It's damn weird Apple is also going after Google Play.  Both platforms are sure Epic Games is wrong, so something must be wrong with Epic Games' way of thinking.

I just don't want the App Store to be compromised in any way that might be detrimental to Apple's customer base.

Not really.  Epic surely must have agreed to the developer terms to get on the App Store.  Now they are in violation of those terms.  That's simple enough to understand.  Apple didn't violate the agreement, so I'm not sure Epic's lawsuit would carry much weight.  If Apple is wrong then they should be fined or punished in some way.  I don't think Epic is being cheated by Apple but that needs to be determined by the courts.

I'm biased towards Apple because it's their App Store and they make the rules and not the developers.  Maybe the 30% cut is higher than it should be but one would have to know exactly what Apple's expenses are to maintain the App Store.

If I had my own grocery store, wouldn't I be allowed to pick and choose which goods I wanted to sell?  I should be able to decide that much because it's MY store.  I set the rules.  Isn't the App Store the same way or does something change because of the scale of the store?

I'm not going to argue as to whether Apple charges too much in terms of fees because I don't know what's exactly fair.  Apple has a lot of housekeeping to do so I don't know if they're making huge profits or not.  I just think that if a developer already knows the rules and they want to put their app on the App Store, I don't understand why they're complaining after the fact.  Fortnite is very popular and didn't Epic make quite a bit of money from the game already.  I'm not taking any sides as it doesn't affect me in any way as I don't play Fortnite and I'm not a developer.  I am an Apple shareholder and Tim Cook has said many developers make a lot of money from their apps on iOS.  Those numbers I heard seem pretty huge, but there are lots of games on the App Store so who knows how many developers make a lot of money.  Maybe only a small percentage.  I'm interested in how the courts treat this anti-trust suit, but Apple usually loses court cases because it's a wealthy company that's an easy target for large payouts.

Monopoly:  A monopoly refers to when a company and its product offerings dominate a sector or industry.  (How is Apple dominating any sector or industry?)