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tylorr on Sept 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages

> Let‘s see how valuable everybody thinks the App Store is when they actually have to pay an access fee directly to Apple

Many apps compensate for the apple fees by increasing the IAP prices. So they already do but may not be aware of it I guess.

colejohnson66 on Sept 9, 2020 [–]

I’m partial to Apple in this case, but one of the arguments against Apple is that those higher costs harm consumers by making them pay more than they can somewhere else.

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