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Apple's 30% revenue cut is absurd rent seeking behavior. Good on these states. Let's keep it going and continue to dismantle similar systems at other companies.

Apple can continue to mandate Apple payment options are as an option in every app, but let's watch as that 30% drops to nothingness once they face real competition.

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And Microsoft charges 30% of the sale price of any game sold on Xbox plus for physical products another 20% for the right to master it to disc plus. Why isn't EGS complaining about this?

Xboxes have always been sold at a loss and then Microsoft makes back its money via games.

https://www.makeuseof.com/microsoft-confirms-its-selling-xbo...

The Switch was always sold at a profit relative to its hardware component and manufacturing costs, yet Nintendo charges 30% platform fees just like Apple (and Microsoft.) PS4 and PS5 (disc model) are currently sold at a profit, and Sony continues to charge the same platform fees.

Nintendo (like Apple) needs to recoup R&D and software development costs, and their business model is based on charging platform fees.

It's completely unsurprising that Apple's gaming handheld uses a similar walled garden/platform fee business model similar to Nintendo's.

[sadly can't fix typo; I wish HN would extend its editing window from a few hours to a week or so.]

One thing at a time

Apple charges 15% for all developers earning less than $1m per year.

And I think you're confused because Apple will still receive their commission irrespective of which payment provider a developer chooses to use.

> Apple charges 15% for all developers earning less than $1m per year.

Still absurd rent seeking behavior without real competition

> And I think you're confused because Apple will still receive their commission irrespective of which payment provider a developer chooses to use.

Keep pushing then

They will try to keep as much of their revenue as possible. Doesn't mean they will get it.

> Apple charges 15%...

* Announced as a change by Apple in November 2020, after this lawsuit was filed in August 2020.

LOL, you're replying with this stupid comment on every comment without realizing that the 15% came AFTER the lawsuits so Apple could save face.

They do this in every thread. Apple apologism is the most insufferable and ugliest side of "Hacker" News.

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