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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by AnthonyMouse on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:08AM (#26994410)
You still don't end up at "percent of revenues" but rather some kind of AWS-like bandwidth charge for distribution.

Which the developer should be able to opt out of by self-hosting.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by jpttsn on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:20PM (#27000196)
Should they also be able to opt out of the font stack Apple licensed, and bring their own free font garbage?

Opt out of the battery controller and encryption libraries, to roll their own for cheap?

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by AnthonyMouse on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:53PM (#27002145)
You're now talking about things (software) that cause Apple to incur no marginal cost. It's not unreasonable at that point to expect that they choose between allowing you to decline the charge for them and do without or provide those things for free.
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