If the fee for in-app purchases was lower than the free for purchasing an app, every developer would just make their app free and then lock the premium aspects behind a paywall.

Problem is that probably a HUGE percentage of sales from apps are in app purchases, because most apps are “free”.

Apple built the mall. They provide the electricity, security guards, food court, merry-go-round, and all the other things that people come to see for all the business that want to use their services to make money. All they ask for is a cut of what you make and Epic knew how much that cut was when they moved in.  And…

They know it’s not the case, but they’re hoping that the groundswell of disaffected kids is enough to get Apple to back down.

And Apple’s market share of the Apple market seems to be almost 100%, they have almost complete control of what software is installed on their platform.

You understand the difference with Google, right? You can buy and install apps for Androids without using the Google Play store. The same option hardly exists with Apple devices, thus there are legitimate concerns regarding antitrust.

The problem is, when virus infects a Windows machine, people blame Microsoft. When malware gets through onto an Android device, people blame Google. If bad things happen on your iPhone, people blame Apple. Things like Parental Controls don’t work if the programs themselves don’t adhere to the APIs and calls that hook…

As someone who plays Fortnite on multiple platforms I can confirm (unless Epic changed the way they operate yesterday) that you CANNOT transfer purchased v-bucks across platforms.   The original article is wrong.

For example, I usually buy v-bucks on my Switch since I never bothered to add payment details to my PS4, my…

Why do all of these articles compare Apple and the iPhone to Microsoft and PCs when Microsoft doesn’t make all our PC hardware? It’s more like Microsoft with an XBox, which I can’t sideload software on either. From their terms:

“Epic Games has long pushed for fair treatment of developers”

Except it seems for most players, he was right.  People aren’t sticking around for Classic in the long run.

For the majority of people, he wasn’t wrong as not many stuck around Classic in the long run.

They can’t even win with the majority because the people crying for classic were never truly united over what they wanted from it, there was never any real majority for any particular implementation of classic. Pretty much everyone had a different idea of what it should be and nothing Blizzard could deliver would…

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history…

Good lord, you should not ever trust scientists. You can trust their verified findings, but there’s no reason to trust a scientist just because they are a scientist.

1. How is it a loss? Is the quality of the quality of the film dependent on who signs the cheques? How does having fewer owners for the franchises affect overall movie quality?
Of the 3,968 films released last year, how many do you think were done by the “majors”?

Deadpool vs. Aliens vs. Predator

You can frame it as only an opinion, but hate speech has consequences. Already it’s been used as justification to prevent protection to trans people in the states and the UK. Already it’s caused an uptick in hate towards trans people online and in real life. You’re worried about people having to move from one game to…

In case anyone here was still under the impression that JK Rowling isn’t a transphobe, she recently unfollowed Stephen King and deleted her tweets supporting him after he came out saying trans women are women.

Incredible that you already benchmarked systems that don’t exist yet.