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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: 0.193s | source
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amelius ◴[12 Dec 25 17:58 UTC] No.46246687[source]▶
Why didn't Microsoft, back in the 90s, have an app store that businesses had to pay for to sell Windows applications in?

I mean, it's certainly not for lack of business insight. And you don't need the internet to sell applications.

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1. downrightmike ◴[12 Dec 25 22:25 UTC] No.46249765[source]▶
Moving megabytes and then gigabytes were really expensive and error prone. physical media was faster and practically no error.