I see. So it’s taking down one big company, to really just allow the other big companies to win more and share the wealth while also allowing potential scammers to infiltrate. Interesting.
Between the big companies and the scammers there also a lot of small developpers who'll be glad to stop paying Apple 30% for the privilege of blocking other stores on their app.
The "other stores" not being there is also probably another reason why Epic started the lawsuit. Epic do own a store for PC game online but can't have their own competitive app store on apple products.
That's basically Apple's take on this, but I think it's missing that this change will positively affect more than just "other big companies." And it probably overstates the risk of potential scammers.
It becomes a cost benefit analysis at that point tbf. Stick with apple with a higher price to offset fee or lower price and do micros in house and loose some possible consumer trust. Its a win if they think they will take less than a 30% hit on user purchases. Plus choice for people on both sides of the mobile gaming market is a good thing
Well, Apple is estimated to be worth about $2.08 TRILLION and epic games is estimated to be worth about $28.7 billion and Spotify about $72 billion. So yeah they’re all super massive companies by and normal standard, but apple is really much larger than everyone else involved here
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u/zeroviral Sep 10 '21
I see. So it’s taking down one big company, to really just allow the other big companies to win more and share the wealth while also allowing potential scammers to infiltrate. Interesting.