Re:Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple V...
by rob74 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:49AM
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Wow, you seem to have a lot of love for walled gardens...
Take the risk? What risk? By now both surviving mobile platforms (iOS and Android) are well established, and especially the iOS app store is raking in obscene profits for Apple out of the work of others. I would have been ok with a 30% "app store tax" a few years ago, but nowadays it just feels like milking the cash cow...
Re:Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple V...
by brookst on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:07AM
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No need to get personal.
I’m just saying that Epic is using a legal strategy to attack markets with vertically integrated hardware and software distribution (phones, consoles). The owners of these platforms are not thrilled, and we should expect UE to be a casualty.
I’m surprised that’s emotionally charged for you.
Don’t expect long term love for UE from Amazon or Sony or Microsoft, either. They all know that Epic’s end game is to get regulators to force platforms to allow Epic as a competing app store. Let others take the risk, swoop in and undercut once there are profits to be had.
Nobody is going to want to fund that. It will take a decade or more, but UE is doomed unless Epic divests it or gives up on the predatory app store / regulatory business model.