I don't think attacks on Epic's sort of 'suitability' in fighting this dragon are really warranted. Like godzilla vs. king kong, I think the only entities wit

I don't think attacks on Epic's sort of 'suitability' in fighting this dragon are really warranted. Like godzilla vs. king kong, I think the only entities with the financial strength and influence to tangle with apple/google is going to be a bit of a monster in their own right. My feelings about this do tend to vacillate. My opinion right now is sort of circumstantial, in that I don't think it's even tongue in cheek to call 30% the apple/google tax. apple defends itself with the work it puts into maintaining app store quality. But imo enforced app quality and the store experience is something you sell to customers, not developers. So apple talks about how there's so many free apps that never give apple a nickel. I can understand differentiated pricing for different customers, but framing app developers as app store customers is where I feel apple and google run afoul. So it's like, why is it acceptable that mega-apps like fortnite are basically levied to support the app store, that apple turns around and presents to the customer and says "look how nice we made this"? I don't know, it feels like the anti "developers, developers, developers". They don't have to make any concession to promote developers to use their platform, because there practically isn't much of a choice, between the two they're nearly the only game in town.