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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by DrNosferatu on Friday August 22, 2025 @11:09PM (#44992756)
30% on the App Store was an answer to Nokia’s Ovi store some 70%!
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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by Kaethar on Saturday August 23, 2025 @06:15AM (#44994837)
Damn that's absolutely ridiculous. It makes me feel less bad for Nokia CEO's burning platform speech.
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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by DrNosferatu on Saturday August 23, 2025 @11:15PM (#45001024)
It’s a fascinating story:

One of their last Symbian phones, the N8 (and if you ask me, one of the most beautiful ever designed), sold very well, some 4 million units! But the ground was shifting so much, that even that couldn’t save them.

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