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.
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.
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 🤷
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.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.
2 evil companies who get off on huffing their own facts.
Let them fight.
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.
push the industry forward
Oh they have reviews now?
Unreal, nanite, lumen, foliage renderer, RdS, The fortnite scripting language which has been ported over to UE5, by far all the best contract for indie devs of all of the non-free game engines.
So, yeah, quite a lot.
Your parent comment was mentioning the fact that their store still does not support user reviews, which should be one of the most basic features.
