Apple’s contract is completely normal though. Resale distribution channels for locked in platforms aren’t new: Ticketmaster, PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, etc

The only difference is people want to change the rules because they feel Apple (and Google) have won the game forever and App Stores should now be regulated like utilities.

The analogy with videogame console is i think the best one. I hate Apple rules on the app store, but i’ve always wondered if they hadn’t just copied the gaming console business models.

Which makes me wonder : is there any way to distribute your own game to playstation users, without having to ask or pay anything to sony ?

Generally, no, unless is the equivalent of a jailbreak.

Same for any console, though some are very restrictive and have very specific pricing guidelines (eg. Nintendo).

The contract developers have with Apple involves use of Apple's property.

A contract may not be enforceable, but only if it contradicts the law. In this instance, I don't see how.

> I don't see how.

I suggest you read up on this dispute then, because the whole cause of this dispute is that Epic believes the contract violates anti-trust law.

What physical property of Apple's is involved here? There's intellectual property, but at the end of the day the purpose of their Intellectual Property Rights in this scenario is to ensure that after paying them $1000 for a phone they still get to collect 30% of all the purchases you make using that phone in perpetuity (as long as they can get away with it), while also limiting what you can do with your Physical Property that you paid for.

I suppose if you don't like it you can go buy an Android phone and just give away all your data in addition to the 30%.

Also worth considering: How much of Apple's intellectual property here could exist without them harvesting decades of free/open software development history unpaid? And now they're complaining that someone used their SDK after paying the license fees?