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I’m still amazed by the number of tech websites who don’t seem to have either read fully or grasped the ruling of the judge in the Epic vs Apple trial. The removal of the anti-steering rules in the App Store guidelines does NOT mean that Apple won’t get its 30 % commission. In fact the judge ruled that Apple is entitled to compensation for its intellectual property. Anything else would be contrary to intellectual property law. The only difference would be that payment would be done to the third party fully, and then Apple would have to get its 30 % from them after the fact. Whereas today it’s the other way around, which is much easier for Apple as they are the payment processor and only need to pay out the 30 % to the developers. How this will be done in practice, we’ll see. But Apple has anyhow appealed so we’ll see what happens.