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Apple is still standing in the way of Epic’s app store

www.theverge.com Apple is still standing in the way of Epic’s app store

Smaller developers could have a tough time on the iOS Epic Games Store.

Epic Games @lemmy.zip Apple is still standing in the way of Epic’s app store

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Apple is like a predatory landlord and hoa all rolled into one pile of fuck you towards it's developers. A reckoning cannot come soon enough for them.

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2 evil companies who get off on huffing their own facts.

Let them fight.

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- I'm a bit more pathetic to epic since they actually do push the industry forward. Apple have done f all for the gaming industry. In fact they've largely held it back for a long time by having such terrible support for graphics drivers.
  
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  push the industry forward
  
  Oh they have reviews now?
  
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Do they have their own app store on Android where it's easy?

Edit:
Apparently they do: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/mobile/android
I just never heard about it.

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- IIRC, they even have a rewards thing right now where you can get some free stuff for playing their games specifically on mobile, trying to draw more attention to their new store.
  
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  It's not new it's been there since forever
  
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I don't understand how Apple is getting away with charging other app stores. At most they could charge for hosting the either app store's app on their store, but that should be it. They have no other costs that they can justify since they aren't hosting, vetting, or curating the other store.

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- I think it's just that government bodies like the EU move slow so it'll take a while for them to bonk Apple, not that they're "getting away with it" in anything more than the short term.
  
  I could be wrong though.
  
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- I don't understand how Apple is getting away with charging other app stores.
  
  Because the gov allows it.
  
  Meanwhile California says Google has a monopoly on their game store 🤷
  
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To sell a game outside Apple’s App Store, developers must effectively pay a 50 euro cent per user per year installation fee once they reach a certain number of downloads. If developers want to link users to purchases outside the app, they’ll also need to fork out a 10 percent commission on all sales made “on any platform” — including outside of iOS. That’s on top of a 5 percent commission on purchases made within one year of the app’s installation. Then, they’d have to pay any fees charged by the operator of the new marketplace. In Epic’s case, that’s 12 percent — a significant discount on its own, but a major addition once you factor in Apple’s costs.

Checking Apple's fee calculator, apps that publish exclusively on third party stores don't have to pay Apple any commission, just the core technology fee. That makes it a bit less crazy, and I don't think article mentions it. Epic could save itself a lot of money by just not using the App Store but complaining is much more fun for Tim Sweeney.

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- Only available in the EU
  
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Rare Good Guy Epic moment, here. That heavy breathing in the corner is the EU commission getting ready to send a sternly worded letter to Apple after investigating for 18 months.

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- They just want to carve up a bigger piece of the consumer pie, they're in no way a "good guy" in this.
  
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  They are fighting against a platform that needs to be dismantled and opened to the market. They’re absolutely a good guy here.
  
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Oh no.

Anyway.

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I don't want more app stores I just want something like a cross platform version of obtainium

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Epic app is garbage anyway. Just like Egs

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