APPLE IN-APP PAYMENTS
RULED ANTI-COMPETITIVE
PING!
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“You know, because Best Buy and Target are forced by a judge’s injunction to place signs next to each product that advertise lower prices for the same items at Walmart.”
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What a stupid metaphor!
Apple (devices) are a platform.
This is not analogous to a retailer (re)selling a products.
This would be like an arena telling a band that only the arena can sell tickets in house (not a ticket service) and only they can sell band merchandise, and what would be worse is that the band has basically no other arena’s that they can choose to play in.
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One small step. They really should be forced to divest their app store, or at a minimum allow people to put whatever app they want on their phones.
Added to my shares of T on the dip. It has some very good things happening that will outweigh this little blip.
Likely won’t stand on appeal. It is Apple’s platform and Apple’s app store. Apple’s agreements state that if you, an app developer, wants to distribute your software through their store, and for use on their platform devices, you have to give them a share of your revenue. This applies also to any add-on revenue you derive from add-on purchases within those apps.
Epic agreed to these terms when they made their apps available on the Apple app store. It wasn’t a secret, and no one put a gun to their head and made them do it. They could have focused on the Android market, then Windows-phone market, the game-console market, or even developed and sold their own platform. Epic CHOSE to offer their apps via Apple and agreed to the terms of the deal. I have zero sympathy for them.
In fact, if Epic were smart, they’d capitalize on the popularity of Fortnite and bump their price up for Apple subscribers by however much they need to so that they are agnostic as to which platform their users opt for. Instead, they want the courts to get them some special terms, rather than codifying the ones they themselves already agreed to.
Good. Just like the Microsoft IE case.
Is this the same Apple computer company that bitched for years about Microsoft having a monopoly on Windows and they said that was unfair, yet, here they are complaining about someone getting around their monopoly??
Phyrric victory.
Yes, everyone else can now (well, after appeals come to nothing) provide alternate payment systems.
Epic violated the contract, was duly kicked off the platform permanently, and the judge noted that Apple doesn’t have to let Epic back.