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Normal credit card processing is 1-3%. They are literally charging 10x market simply because they are the only game in town (due to bundling). They aren't prov

• epistasis 3y ago
  Are they a credit card processor, or are they a store? What do you think the margin is at the mall?
  • sneak 3y ago
    For IAPs? They are a card processor.
• ribosometronome 3y ago
  The only game town for what, though? Doing things on your iPhone? Most of the things Apple takes a 30% cut for are things that are very easy to do on other devices, it's just that people specifically want to do them on the iPhone. The most notable 30% case is with Fortnite but that's an excellent example of portability. There isn't really anything locking anyone to playing on iPhone except wanting to play on iPhone. Purchased skins and the like are all accessible regardless of where you purchase or play as long as it was linked to your Epic account.
  • makeitdouble 3y ago
    > The only game town for what, though? Doing things on your iPhone? Well, yes. There's only two generally available phone platforms and they both collude to take a 30% cut, so avoid that cut amounts to getting exculded from the largest computing platform used worldwide (except China)