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

(arstechnica.com)
432 points nobody9999 | 2 comments | 12 Dec 25 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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orefalo ◴[12 Dec 25 18:37 UTC] No.46247170[source]▶
Apple can go to hell, their 30% fee is prohibitive.

If Jobs was still here, he would have fired all the fat management.

shame on you Apple, you are acting like M$!

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1. Semaphor ◴[12 Dec 25 18:39 UTC] No.46247191[source]▶
Why would jobs of all people have an issue with that?
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2. benoau ◴[13 Dec 25 00:31 UTC] No.46250744[source]▶
He loved their policy. He wrote it.

> “I think this is all pretty simple — iBooks is going to be the only bookstore on iOS devices. We need to hold our heads high. One can read books bought elsewhere, just not buy/rent/subscribe from iOS without paying us, which we acknowledge is prohibitive for many things.”

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348130/apple-documents-...