it’s only when they felt they had broad enough market saturation that they decided they wanted more money

I don’t see how this is different from Walmart selling other companies’ items for a profit in their stores. Apple makes the phone, the store is on their phone, they make a profit from sales through their store. App makers price accordingly.

This is something that’s getting lost in the noise. The inherent sexism here is extremely telling, seeming to say: these women will never design/write/animate these characters but we will ask them if our man made designs are any good. If she’d says “yes”, then it’s a go. If she says no, well that’s just a yes better…

There is no ‘fair’ in capitalism, just what the market is willing to pay. With tens of thousands of apps on the store and billions of dollars in annual sales, the market has been willing to pay 30%, including Epic up to this point.

A. Microsoft ultimately won the case for including internet explorer, when the initial judge’s ruling was successfully appealed, and they settled with the DoJ by agreeing to share its API with developers, to give them theoretically equal access to integrate into Windows that Microsoft had with IE.

“such as asking all female staff to provide feedback about the portrayal and behavior of characters in the games we make.”

30% is extremely low to what publisher models used to be, especially for physical distribution, where up to 70% could of been taken. Nobody seems to understand 30% is an all time low for the industry.

Another epic brainwashed fanboy lol.

If you don’t like the terms of the contract, YOU DON’T SIGN THE CONTRACT.

Let’s slow down here. Don’t think that Epic is fighting the good fight for everyone. They care ONLY about their own bottom line. Getting fees lowered for other devs is merely to get public support behind them. It’s not an action that comes from the goodness of their hearts.

Uh, no. Epic is the one that dragged them into it.
Epic, the company that is notoriously anti-consumer in terms of their game store and business practices.
Epic, the company that breached their own contract after being told that no, they couldn’t break it.
Epic, the country that is using the very customers it has abused…

Wow, no, you have it completely wrong. Read the analogy again.

So, what does Apple do on it’s phones/tablets that Sony doesn’t do on Playstation? Or Nintendo. Or Xbox.

This. My son pointed it out to me the first night the video dropped. He was loading up the game on the Xbox and it auto played. He didn’t understand what was going on but now he does but it’s skewed because of how Fortnite is playing it. On one public hand they are playing the “were a small dev company and big bad…

Since we’re on the subject, remember that Epic is also suing Google because (and I’m not making this up) almost all Android phones ship with the Google Play store installed.

I don’t think it hurts their case. Their terms are there and they want to keep them. There is nothing wrong about that and every platform has it. What it does show is that Epic basically wanted to keep their stuff on iOS but didn’t want to pay Apple, were told no, did it anyway and are now crying about the…

An analogy to help people understand this situation:

Well in this scenario I can safely say none of these individuals are my friends and I will proceed accordingly by taking my phone out and pressing record while these two slap fight each other on the lawn outside the Red Lobster.

I don’t know if Epic just employs REALLY bad lawyers, but the fact that they for whatever reason think they caught Apple and Google in some sort of anti-trust snare is ludicrous. This is literally no different from someone allowing anyone else to set up shop on their property in return for rent or a cut of the…

What I find insane about this whole thing is that Epic does have a somewhat fair point in regards to the appstore monopoly but their chosen action as a multi-billion dollar company of manipulating kids and acting like a scrappy underdog make you want them to lose regardless.