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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by bsaul on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:34PM (#27454177)
The argument with videogame consoles was that console makers were actually loosing money on each console sold, and would make up for it by taking a larger cut on each game sold.

This is of course very different from apple business model.

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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:12PM (#27455125)
As well as the cost of running first-party QA processes, namely that “Nintendo Seal of Quality” that was instigated to prevent a repeat of the 1980s video game crash, precipitated by a slew of awful shovelware games for the Atari 2600 in particular).

Apple does have their app-review thing - but they said it’s paid-for by the $99 fee, so the 30% cut with all the other Kafkaesque restrictions is not a tenable position.

Anyway - my company stopped publishing to the iOS App Store over a year ago and switched to PWAs and no-regrets here at all.

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