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The point is covered multiple times in the ruling: >Under all models, Apple would be entitled to a commission or licensing fee, even if IAP was optional. >Eve
by GeekyBear 5y ago
The point is covered multiple times in the ruling:
>Under all models, Apple would be entitled to a commission or licensing fee, even if IAP was optional.
>Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that comission.
>Apple is entitled to license it's intellectual property for a fee, and to guard its intellectual property from uncompensated use by others.
>While the court finds no basis for the specific rate chosen by Apple (i.e., the 30% rate) based on the record, the Court still concludes that Apple is entitled to some compensation for the use of it's intellectual property.
>To the extent Epic Games suggests that Apple receive nothing from in-app purchases made on its platform, such a ruling is inconsistent with prevailing intellectual property law
- gpm 5y ago> Apple could still charge a commission on developers. Note the could not the does, Apple can make the contract say this, but the court is not saying the current contract does (the question wasn't before the court). I doubt the current contract does because it didn't need to, and because historically that's how Apple has worked (you weren't allowed to link to payments off of Apple, but if someone found your website and paid for things there you didn't have to give Apple a commission).