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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by nodamage on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:57PM (#24320013)
That seems like an incredibly arbitrary distinction for why consoles are justified in taking 30% but Apple isn't. Apple created a software platform that has made developers billions of dollars, it seems to me there has been value created there.
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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by 05 on Sunday August 30, 2020 @03:02PM (#24325049)
So did Microsoft, but win32 apps aren’t taxed and MS is doing just fine.
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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by pjmlp on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:50AM (#24329583)
Actually MS isn't doing just fine as they would gladly that everyone migrates to Windows Store, which was also part of Windows 10X plans, store only installations including Win32.

Now that Windows 10X seems to go nowhere [1], and Project Reunion is still trying to find out how to merge Windows 7 and 10 worlds [2], one more reason not to do just fine.

[1] - https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10x/238014/windows-...

[2] - https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion/issues

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by nodamage on Sunday August 30, 2020 @08:10PM (#24327193)
I'm sure Apple would be just fine as well, I just found it a little funny that the previous poster claimed Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft were justified in taking 30% because of the "value of creating and enabling an entire ecosystem"... as if Apple hadn't done the exact same thing.
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