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refleks posted:the short descriptions of the judgement seems all over the place. apple is not a monopolist in the sub-genre of game payments, but they cannot force the 30% in the future. At the same time Epic has to pay Apple 30% for all purchases done through their payment service since august 2020? epic lost on basically all grounds other than apple cannot restrict in app purchasing in the exact way they had before. apple had already started adjusting their iap model with some distributors (like netflix) so this is not much of a change on their end. epic lost on all the rest of the grounds and as a result stipulated they owe apple at least $4m in royalties (and probably much more in attorneys fees and costs) and apple is free to terminate their contract at any time to include all of their contracts. so if they kill fortnite, apple is within their rights to kill everything from epic.
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Fabricated posted:Apple lost on basically the only one that really mattered to Epic which was the in-app purchasing, which is pretty funny. They both managed to lose essentially. nah. epic didn’t get its win. apple still gets a cut even with their own bespoke in app purchase system. apple just can’t say “you can also go to our website to pay” anymore. they’ve already had this arrangement with some developers (netflix is the biggest example) and were already implementing this before the judge’s order. because the terms of the contract are otherwise valid, apple may still have rights to collect royalties off payments made on epic’s website if the only device the person plays the game on is ios. epic lost bigly in pretty much every way and they have to pay apple a lot of money in back royalties and most likely attorneys fees.
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