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Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

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432 points nobody9999 | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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jiscariot ◴[12 Dec 25 17:58 UTC] No.46246678[source]▶
Will this help other services like Netflix, Spotify? Or am I misreading things.

My understanding, at least several years ago, that Netflix was paying as much to Apple in subscription fees, as they did for their AWS hosting.

I also noticed when upgrading my Spotify account, I couldn't do that through the iphone app itself - I assumed this was because it would break TOS, or they didn't want to pay a massive chunck of the monthly subscription cost to Apple.

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1. landr0id ◴[12 Dec 25 18:18 UTC] No.46246939[source]▶
Apple relaxed these rules shortly after the initial Epic vs Apple lawsuit: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/tech/apple-app-store-changes-...

Apologies for being unable to find a better source at the moment, but it links to this press release: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/japan-fair-trade-comm...