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Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by lacksconfidence on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:37PM (#28632424)
I don't have links handy but Sweeny directly addressed this. Sony and Microsoft are willing to negotiate with Epic. They get to find a middleground that both sides are happy with. Apple does not negotiate, a developer that has $5 in sales get's the same deal as Epic. Sweeny stated that if Apple had been willing to negotiate similar to Microsoft and Sony then we wouldn't be here.
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Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by dhosek on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:48PM (#28632585)
If Apple had negotiated with Epic, we'd all be arguing about how unfair it is that Epic gets a better deal than everyone else.
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Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by ye_olde_gamer on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:43PM (#28633375)
Eh, we'd probably just have kept buying Fortnite skins and never have heard about this to begin with.

If nothing else, Epic managed to lower in-app commissions for small indie devs, which is a small win at least.

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Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by takeda on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:07PM (#28634569)
That's a good point. Not a big Apple fan, in fact I hate most what they do, but for that particular thing I don't agree with Epic. Those things are anti-competetive and hurt everyone else.
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Re:Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account by kgc on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:33PM (#28633214)
Apple does negotiate. See Netflix and Amazon.
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