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I think they're going to use it to try to establish that they aren't harming competitors. Epics data is less useful because they're newer. They've always exist

I think they're going to use it to try to establish that they aren't harming competitors. Epics data is less useful because they're newer. They've always existed alongside Apples alleged monopoly, so any claims about harm from anti-competitive behavior are basically conjecture. "We would be making uhhh, let's call it 37% more money if it wasn't for Apple". Steam has been around for forever. Apple can point to their sales volume and profit margins to attempt to demonstrate that those haven't changed, so Apple hasn't harmed Steam, and by extension, hasn't harmed Epic.

jonny_eh 6y ago
> Steam has been around for forever Realistically since the release of Half-Life 2, which was November 16, 2004. (Although it technically launched September 12, 2003). The App Store launched with iOS 2 on July 10, 2008. So Steam was a thing for almost 4 years by the time the App Store launched. What I'm curious about is what games did Epic sell on Steam? I assume Apple will want to highlight those.
ksec 6y ago
>I think they're going to use it to try to establish that they aren't harming competitors. Stream isn't a platform owner, Apple is both the platform owner and the sold App Store on one of their most widely used platform. The two have absolutely nothing in common. And I have no idea what Apple is doing. An unpopular opinion, something is very wrong with Tim Cook's Apple. They could have stand up and might as well be rude and said, it is our store, we do whatever we want with it. Then at least we could agree to disagree with Apple. Current Apple is always trying to put themselves as the good guys and others are the bad guys. Which is very much 2000ish Google we do no evil mentality.