App stores, trust and anti-trust

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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