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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages by pier25 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:47AM (#24417234)
Yep.

From the court documents, Apple said there are 27M AppStore registered devs. Even if only half of those pay $100 per year that's still about $1.3B per year.

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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages by pjmlp on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:30AM (#24418302)
Pennies, when compared with console devkit prices.
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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages by saagarjha on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:36AM (#24419149)
Surely there are not 27 million console developers?
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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages by pjmlp on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:37AM (#24419888)
No, because the money stakes to get into the console development game party is much higher than iOS, which apparently Epic is happy to pay for.
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Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages by pier25 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:27PM (#24423409)
Those devs do still need a Mac and (most likely) an iOS device too. There's your dev kit.

Edit:

It's even worse than with consoles as every dev needs at least a Mac. When developing for consoles most work is not done on the dev kit itself.

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