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kbee said:

Beside the fact that I don't like Epic - I'm crossing my fingers hoping that Epic wins. 30% was once reasonable in the beginning - nowadays it is just a sign that there is something wrong with the AppStore and that there is no competition. Apple is clearly abusing its dominance and by the way as far as I can see when your software costs $5,99 on the AppStore you are not allowed to sell it for $4,99 somewhere else.

If Apple is sued to pay back all the money it pirated over the last years - this would be a huge pay check for me (just dreamin) ... Go Epic!!!

DAalseth said:

tyler82 said:

Apple is on the wrong side of this battle. 

Dropping the game, killing their developer account, and such are predictable and Apple is on very solid legal ground with those actions.
Personally I think Apple's 30% on sales is in line with other stores. I think they will be able to defend that as well. 
I have a problem though, with the 30% on sales that do not go through Apple's ecosystem. Epic setting up their own payment system to go directly to their servers is logical and simplifies the transaction. Other that Apple taking their cut there is no reason for aftermarket purchases to go through Apple. It's like if I decided to drive for Uber and Toyota demanded a cut of what I got. 
Apple gets paid nicely for hosting and selling the games. the cut of aftermarket sales is hard to justify. Oh and before anyone says that all of these companies would then have their games for free on the AppStore but you'd have to pay them directly to play them, yes that would be a problem. But Apple should deal with that real problem, not pretend that they deserve a cut of each Prime Video ans Spotify stream we get. 

thataveragejoe said:

AppleInsider said:

Fortunately, the new 27-inch iMac remains one of the few machines in Apple's consumer lineup to feature user-upgradable storage.

Cringe. MEMORY. This is a computer review, right?  The actual storage is not upgradeable.

  

AppleInsider said:

There are always going to be new Macs coming down the line and Intel support is going anywhere anytime soon

Does anyone review/QA anymore?

razorpit said:

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NinjaMan said:

ByteDance is a propaganda machine for the Chinese Govt and everything going on in Xinjiang - are people so blinded by their dislike of Trump that .....
 

Are you so blinded by Trump's hate of China?

Are you aware of China's hatred of the US that goes back before Trump's presidency? The US isn't the only country looking to ban TikTok as well... get off your anti-Trump soapbox and open your eyes to ByteDance being a contributor to mass-murders. The idea that this company is being defended baffles me - this ban should happen regardless of who's in office. It would be absurd if Biden wins in November and removes any potential ban that would be in place.

Does Trump have any more evidence for that nonsense than he had for his Huawei nonsense?

So the genocide in Xinjiang is nonsense? Even the Washington Post acknowledges it and calls out both BtyeDance and Huawei as contributors to the censoring and monitoring of Uighur Muslims on behalf of the Chinese Govt...

This is not about genocide and how terrible the Chinese government is...

The toddler-in-chief doesn’t care about humanitarian reasons so let’s tell the truth...

This is about how Tik-Tok users destroyed his “MAGA” rally in OK and like a kid wants to be vindictive and prevent it from happening again before elections. 

I'm confused. So now it's ok if a foreign entity interferes in an election?