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elijahg said:

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Anyway, losing the Mac userbase is very little concern for Epic, it's probably less than 1% of their revenue. 

My guess is it is financially it is closer to 15-20%; see https://www.businessofapps.com/data/fortnite-statistics/. Granted the piece only deals with Fortnite, but it provides you with the numbers to guesstimate the effect. If Epic Games were a publicly traded company, shareholders would be up in arms!

Peza said:

KITA said:

Interesting. This may impact iOS/macOS gaming even further, potentially making third party developers choose to drop support of iOS/macOS or find a new game engine.

It told Epic that by August 28, Apple will cut off Epic’s access to all development tools necessary to create software for Apple’s platforms—including for the Unreal Engine Epic offers to third-party developers, which Apple has never claimed violated any Apple policy. Not content simply to remove Fortnite from the App Store, Apple is attacking Epic’s entire business in unrelated areas. 

If the Unreal Engine can no longer support Apple platforms, the software developers that use it will be forced to use alternatives.

Apple would lose out on Unreal Engine 5 as well it sounds like.

Yes, yes they will, but if Apple wants to shoot it’s own foot off to carry on with its hypocritical store rules that’s up to them, I’m sure the EU investigation will tell them what to do if they want to continue trading in Europe, no doubt the Apple fans will just claim Apple doesn’t need Europe, yeah it doesn’t need billions in profit.

If anyone is shooting in its own foot, it is Epic. Epic would have a very hard time making their case in EU courts.

Also, anyone in love with the idea that the EU is very keen on dismantling American tech companies is almost surely in for a rude awakening. It would cause major headaches in already fragile US-EU relations, and there are rumors the idea is not very popular in several European capitals.

avon b7 said:

jumpingcoco said:

App Store is a platform that Apple built, i don't care about your stupid game, i want my Apps to be strictly curated and I want Apple to make some money off it. If a customer disagrees with the policy and gets angry about it, then don't buy and iPhone, it's that simple. 

That's fine but did you know Apple would be the middleman to everything, and that they would decide what you could download or not? 

Except that Apple does not decide that. It is really up to the developer to decide. The only thing the developer has to do is to adhere to the App Store rules.

kmarei said:

igorsky said:

The day I get to dictate what price I pay to sell stuff on eBay, Amazon, Etsy, Poshmark, Walmart, a flea market, etc. to the owners of those marketplaces is the day I side with these developers.  Until then they can all take a flying leap.

But this is not something you are buying from amazon, eBay etc. 
this is an accessory to what you bought from them

Buying v-bucks in fortnite has absolutely nothing to do with apple
doesn't go through their servers, doesn’t need to be checked by Apple like apps, requires zero effort from any Apple employee. So what am I paying Apple $3 for when I buy v-bucks? What service am I getting for that?

I believe this to be incorrect. As far as I understand, Apple actually takes care of the payment processing, also for in-app purchases.

Now that they're also Google's crosshairs, Epic may have overplayed its hand. Cutting off a considerable user base overnight is not going to sit well with those users in the medium to long run, and may expose negatives Epic doesn't want others to see. An Epic clusterf*ck, so to speak.