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>In a separate judgment, the court affirmed that Epic Games was in breach of its contract with Apple when it implemented the alternative payment system in the F
by ApolloFortyNine 5y ago
>In a separate judgment, the court affirmed that Epic Games was in breach of its contract with Apple when it implemented the alternative payment system in the Fortnite app. As a result, Epic must pay Apple 30 percent of all revenue collected through the system since it was implemented — a sum of more than $3.5 million.
Well, that seems rather BS. To even try for the antitrust case they were required to show how it would hurt consumers. So they did. Which went against Apple's rules obviously.
So it's decided that Apple isn't allowed to do what they were doing, but, Epic has to pay out a fine anyways? Would the case have even made it this far if Epic hadn't done this?
I'm sure Epic is happy to pay the $3.5 million in return for this, and other companies are surely just as pleased. But to have to pay it at all seems like a bit of a legal flaw here.
- threeseed 5y agoEpic was in breach of contract. Which means not only do they have to pay the fine but Apple is likely to permanently ban them from the store.
- ApolloFortyNine 5y agoI feel you missed my point entirely. However banning Epic from the store would be great honestly, then maybe the next injunction would be to force Apple to allow users to install what they want.