Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well

Re:Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store a... by wombatmobile on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:24AM (#24153357)

Yes, Apple could just be reasonable, like you.

As you point out, awinder, it would be possible to rort the rules by charging zero for the app, and then making the bulk of the revenue come from the IAP, if the former costs 30% and the latter costs 0%.

Apple could overcome those technical nonsensibilities by simply defining a second tier lower charge of say 10% in a common sense way, and then granting second tier status to the kinds of transactions that deserve it in a common sense interpretation.

Without a second tier to app store pricing, Apple is not going to please all the people all of the time. Dissatisfaction is inevitable.

With a second tier, sensibly applied, everyone's a winner, all of the time.

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Re:Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store a... by xref on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:37AM (#24154078)

Is this a GPT-3 auto-response bot? It’s a new account, the replies are all very similarly structured, fairly long, and still mostly devoid of content

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Re:Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store a... by wombatmobile on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:18AM (#24154807)

I'm a human, xref. And I am new to Hacker News. If you feel that I am not fitting in with your expectations for the culture here, please feel free to suggest ways to improve our interaction. I will listen to you with open ears.

When you say "devoid of content" is that a criticism because you don't agree with my proposal that Apple introduce tiered pricing? Or something else? Would you care to elaborate?

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Re:Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store a... by zepto on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:36AM (#24158460)

There is a way you don’t seem to be taking this debate seriously. But in my view I doubt that means you are a bot.

For example your walmart analogy isn’t an analogy of anything in this situation and you don’t explain that.

And of now you are talking about Apple using common sense rules to decide what is an is acceptable, which of course is what they think they have been doing all along. People disagree on what is common sense.

The pattern is that you appear to be making interesting but flawed suggestions and then not taking seriously people’s responses to them.

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