Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by Traster on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:31PM
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It's $100 because there's no other distribution method. If tomorrow you could use Apple's libraries and distribute the App by yourself, the cost of the Libraries wouldn't be $100. It'd be $100 and 30% of your revenue. It's not meaningful to draw out 1 bill when we all know that what's important is the total cost.
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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by gpm on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:38PM
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And you can bet that Epic and many other companies reaction to that pricing would jut to be to create their own set of libraries instead of paying for Apple's...
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by dwaite on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:49PM
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I don't believe they would be able to do that - you don't draw to the screen using POSIX.
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by gpm on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:54PM
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No, but you do draw to the screen by reverse engineering whatever os level graphics api is available and using it, and at a 30% cut on every app here there is literally billions of dollars of funding available to do that.
I imagine if Apple tried to restrict third party apps from doing that through the legal system, we would see another suit but this time about "graphics" instead of "payment processing".