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No, their goal is to open a competing store, which they stated in their lawsuit. The same statement made in the Google Play lawsuit, incidentally, where it doesn’t really fit, but that’s their lawyers being lazy, I guess. Their claim is that they aren’t allowed to open that competing store. Given the level of quality…

A 30% cut is the industry standard across all store platforms. It “seems high” because you don’t have any context for that. Apple has done nothing to enforce that cut in other stores, or force people to use their ecosystem, they only provided a competing product that performs well.

It’s already happening, their revenue already dropped by 25%. There MAY be a connection there.

Did you have a look at the “Epic Payment” option? Did you notice how it completely prevented Apple from ever getting paid for having Fortnite on their store (Fortnite being free), while at the same time meant an even larger chunk of money to Epic (players didn’t see a 30% discount on their vBucks)? They lowered the…

Then buy Android devices. Samsung makes some quite high-end phones and tablets, from what I hear.

Don’t forget that their stated end-goal is to literally keep every red cent their game produces, without ever compensating anybody else.

Do you know they made a deal, instead of adhering to the same pay cuts other games make?

Remember when Nintendo and Sega had a stranglehold over the console market? And that upstart Sony made a console? Or when Nintendo and Sony had a stranglehold, and Microsoft made a competitor? Do you know why Sony and Microsoft didn’t bother suing first? It’s because they recognized that the only thing keeping them…

You mean, like taking whitewater textures, and making them clear water?

Not only is it a kit you can buy, the process of building it requires that you take a dremel to an existing Wii motherboard. It uses the actual hardware, by cutting out the parts of the hardware it wants to use, and soldering contacts directly to the remains. I don’t know about you, but I’m not that brave.

I mean, the Rising Sun was removed from the banner, but the text was already on there, just not very legible.

No, it indicates nothing except that they wanted it to seem like the two markets that they are suing over are different. They state in the lawsuits that those other markets charge the same.

So your argument is that the Nintendo Store, the XBox Live Marketplace, and the PlayStation Store should all have on-platform competitors that don’t charge 30%? Because that’s what all three do. And Epic isn’t suing them for their cuts.

Then they can not sell through Apple’s store. Nobody is forcing them to use Apple’s store. They just want to.

No, Android users can use Epic’s own store on Android to install Fortnite. They can download the game and install it themselves. There are other big stores on Android that carry Fortnite, including Amazon’s app store. There are too many options, they just aren’t used as frequently. What Google has is customers, and…

Thing is, Macs weren’t sold with that in mind, iOS devices were. So, in buying an Apple product, you bought access to that walled garden. It doesn’t really compare.

...except they launched the same lawsuit against Google, when they have a store for Android, when Google removed them from the Play Store shortly after Apple did. So it’s all about “we want to use your store but keep all the money.”

There’s only one thing to say. “Long live the king!”

Yeah, the whole thing about being a sentient species is that you aren’t ruled by your biology, and can control your thoughts. Your constant denial of this fact speaks worlds about you. Good day.