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Apple doesn’t always get 30%. Retailers selling iTunes gift cards get a cut. You can guess their cut when they have 15% discounts.
by username3 6y ago
Apple doesn’t always get 30%. Retailers selling iTunes gift cards get a cut. You can guess their cut when they have 15% discounts.
- ddorian43 6y agoLet me rephrase it: Epic loses 30%. In this case, like, $500M+.
- username3 6y agoEpic can sell iTunes gift cards and earn back some of that 30%.
- hu3 6y agoThis makes as much sense as saying "just work extra hours to earn back taxes".
- username3 6y agoAnother analogy would be “work extra hours for the government to earn back taxes.” We pay taxes and government pays employees and contractors. Epic pays Apple and Apple pays retailers.
- ascagnel_ 6y agoEpic literally does sell gift cards: https://smile.amazon.com/Fortnite-V-Bucks-Gift-Card-40/dp/B081R4YKPQ/ https://smile.amazon.com/Fortnite-V-Bucks-Gift-Card-40/dp/B0... Fortnite is big enough that Epic fills as many sales channels as they can with ways to buy their in-game currency.
- username3 6y agoThey have the infrastructure to sell vbucks gift cards, so they can sell iTunes and Play store gift cards.