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A comment on Apple, Epic, and the App Store. Parent comment

Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by chadcmulligan on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:23PM (#24193476)
The trouble is with the App Store that you can't charge more on the App Store than you do elsewhere to cover the costs of the App Store. This is perhaps the anti competitive part - if you could just pass on the App Store costs then the free market would reign.
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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by pwinnski on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:08AM (#24199557)
This is not true.

It was true for a brief period of time, several publishers challenged Apple on it, and Apple relaxed that rule.

They still have several silly rules, but not this one.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by scarface74 on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:19PM (#24193895)
Yes you can. In fact Spotify did just that before they stopped allowing in app purchases.
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