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Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by sam0x17 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:35AM (#28630709)
This analogy only works if you modify it:

There are only two chains of brick and mortar store in the world and one with double digit market share (Apple) has decided to take 30% off the top for all goods sold in all of their stores and have banned products from having any indication on their packaging that they can be purchased elsewhere for different pricing. Entering any store also requires an extremely expensive chain-specific device that most people purchase on credit every few years, eliminating the ability to easily shop around at both chains.

If this were to happen outside of tech, the perpetrator would get crushed by anti-monopoly legislation.

Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by chrischen on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:21PM (#28632213)
An App distributed on the immensely popular iOS platform can be used to advertise alternative platforms at different pricing. The “fair” price if this was allowed to happen would be a 0% cut since no one in their right mind would pay any amount extra if given the option.

The only real restriction Apple currently has is that apps should do no such advertising of alternative platforms (payment methods).

All arguments about the fairness of this are moot because see Netflix, which happily complies with these rules and avoids Apple’s 30% cut. https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-a...

Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by sam0x17 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:39PM (#28632453)
> An App distributed on the immensely popular iOS platform can be used to advertise alternative platforms at different pricing. The “fair” price if this was allowed to happen would be a 0% cut since no one in their right mind would pay any amount extra if given the option.

Prior to the recent ruling, this was untrue (unless I'm mistaken).

Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by chrischen on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:56PM (#28632683)
What is untrue?
Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by AnthonyMouse on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:50AM (#28630911)
It's even worse than that, because each of the stores are in different cities and if your customers want to patronize the other store they first have to move to the other city.
Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by sam0x17 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:40PM (#28632463)
See my edit regarding "you need an expensive chain-specific device" to enter any store belonging to a chain.