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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: 0.207s | 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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GeekyBear ◴[12 Dec 25 18:27 UTC] No.46247057[source]▶
Netflix and Spotify haven't paid Apple a cut for years. Customers pay subscription fees to them directly and Apple doesn't get a dime.
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1. madeofpalk ◴[12 Dec 25 19:19 UTC] No.46247673[source]▶
Their problem is that you cannot (could not) sign up for an account from the iPhone app.

“You download the app and it doesn’t work, that’s not what we want on the store” https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/18/interview-apples-schiller-...