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Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Someone's looking to get in on some anti-trust action.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I thought Apple's app store practices were found to be legal in the Epic Games trial? (unlike Google's)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Which is kinda ridiculous since Apple's practices are what Google does but worse.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    To paraphrase an analysis that I read awhile ago, Apple’s practices were found to be legal because Apple applied the rules unilaterally whereas Google would make backroom deals to alter the rules on an app-by-app basis.

    Please take this with a grain of salt because 1) IANAL and 2) it is the middle of a workday break and I didn’t take the time to search for a source, just basing this off of memory.

    If you want I can research this after work to provide sources and update my comment.

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