Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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Aug 13, 2020 21 Comments

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366438/apple-fortnite-ios-app-store-violations-epic-payments

30% payment fee is horrendous but Apple doesn’t give a damn

You better pay up folks, 2T market cap isn’t going to make itself happen

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  • Apple
    yogi🐻

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    yogi🐻
    Guess what Google charges the same and they kicked the app out from their store too.Also, it does cost money to test apps, host them in massive data centers. And most of the apps are free and apple doesn’t charge anything for that. Only for some apps where they pay through apple , they charge a small cut. It doesn’t seem any different from google playstore.
    Aug 13, 2020 6
    • King / Eng
      zmWY81Yp

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      30% is not a small cut BTW. It basically means: Monday I make money for Google, Tuesday for Apple and the rest of the week for my company
      Aug 14, 2020
    • ARM
      Arch101

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      Arch101
      You can tell how Apple is being defensive and has never tried to build a business. 30% is INSANE. What kind of net-margins do you need to be doing to afford that? Also some would say the app developers just charge more - well guess what - that is money from the consumer's pocket into Apple's instead of the dev's. Also there is limited pricing power each business can exercise. That directly affects devs a big time, meaning less content and opportunity which is again bad for consumers. Apple is just trying to squeeze out every penny cos there is no organic growth :X.
      Aug 14, 2020
  • Epic has enough FU money to not give a flying f*ck about this.
    Aug 13, 2020 2
  • Roblox
    ko55

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    ko55
    Break up these monopolies. They’re owners of a marketplace and also have their own apps in there that are given unfair advantage. Same with amazon shopping. Break them up.
    Aug 13, 2020 3
  • NVIDIA
    BVNV

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    BVNV
    Maybe hardware component companies like ARM should charge Apple a cut from Apple play store revenue.
    Aug 13, 2020 2
  • Apple
    57e239f2f3

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    57e239f2f3
    Epic Games is trying to build their own game store but they don't want to follow the rules on others :)

    They are literally giving free games to get customers. Let's see what they will do in the future.
    Aug 14, 2020 0