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Re:Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case by ghosty141 on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:38PM (#28485503)
>Are you willing to spend 27% more for everything to use Apple payment gateway? Do you love it that much?

Most in-App purchases are in the range of 1-5$. If I pay a couple of cents more to have a unified experience, yeah sure.

It'd be interesting to see how much users spend on in-App purchases. For me it's almost nothing, maybe 1 purchase a year? The big money is probably in the free2play market where players spend a lot to buy booster packs or "gold".

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Re:Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case by woko on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:16AM (#28490557)
You are correct. See:

> Judge seems alarmed at the extent to which impulse spending by "exorbitantly high spending gamers" drives App Store revenue.

> Says it's outside the scope of antitrust but says issue is "worthy of attention"

[1] https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1436365652164493317

> "in most economic ways...the App Store is primarily a game store and secondarily an 'every other' app store"

[2] https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1436365985800507394

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