App stores, trust and anti-trust

Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by lsiebert on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:04PM (#24228176)

Epic is fine with the appstore, but it wants to handle it's own in-app payments. You can have an app store with a separate in app payments; Uber does for example. Epic says as much in it's argument for a preliminary injunction.*

Stadia is actually more of an existential issue than Epic because they want to run unapproved games.

* https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327...

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by bussierem on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:13PM (#24228296)

Stadia and it's ilk are not running any apps other than video streaming and input capture. The apps and games you play via them are run on a remote server and I/O is streamed between it and your device. If that's running "unapproved apps" then so is twitch when it did Twitch Plays Pokemon.

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by scarface74 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:29PM (#24228522)

You notice that Epic isn’t insisting on in app payments for any of the consoles, why not?

Can I use in app payments within the Epic app that allow me to bypass Epic and get virtual currency even cheaper than Epic?

Epic gets to choose how people buy currency on its platform. What’s the difference?

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by panpanna on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:05PM (#24228959)

I think their fee is much lower.

Also, there are competing "stores" on PC, including the buy-cd-from-physical-store-and-pay-no-fees option. On iPhone it's apples way or the highway.

So while epic are hypocrites, they can be bypassed easily.

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Re:App stores, trust and anti-trust by scarface74 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:33PM (#24229805)

There are no competing stores within Fortnite’s “platform”.

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