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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by katbyte on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:22PM (#26170336)
how is it 30% more expensive apps when the play store, ps4 store, xbox store all take the same amount?
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by AttakBanana on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:30PM (#26170447)
Because all of them take a 30% cut (*some exceptions to certain apps apply)

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...

What I mean is, if Apple's cut was lesser / we had different app stores, prices could potentially be up to 30% lesser.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by crysin on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:07PM (#26171800)
They'd be cutting themselves out of other stores if they did that. Stores like Steam require that your game is sold at the same price across all stores otherwise it will be removed from Steam.
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by AttakBanana on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:57AM (#26176464)
That is also a bad monopolistic practice we should be against. Apple isn't the only culprit.
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