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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages by gpm on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:38PM (#24413763)
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...
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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages by dwaite on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:49PM (#24413898)
I don't believe they would be able to do that - you don't draw to the screen using POSIX.
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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages by gpm on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:54PM (#24413947)
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".

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