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@Moon
Do they? Weren't there several apps with malware on Google Play. Apple does quite a thorough inspection though.
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@kline
Google does say “Developers offering products within a game downloaded on Google Play or providing access to game content must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment.”, but that's irrelevant because they aren't required to use Google Play to be on Android, however they are suing Google too.

Definitely. Even if you don't have any microtransactions in your free game, Apple still requires you to go through them which means they are abusing their position.

@Moon
Apple has quite a lot of different SDKs but I don't know how useful or worth it they are plus iOS dev must be done on Macs.

@kline
That's obvious they don't want to share profits.
I don't want to defend Apple or Google but why should they host and distribute an app for free? They aren't a charity. If Epic used a third party payment processor only, Apple and Google would be distributing this extremely popular app at a loss.

At least with Apple they have some ground to stand on because all apps must be distributed through the Appstore. That's not the case with Android.

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What is Epic trying to achieve here? Do they expect Apple and Google to not take a cut? How are they supposed run the store if they don't take a cut?

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Wait, Google Play Store removed Fortnite too?

Broke: Reading the article
Woke: Reading only the headline
Bespoke: Reading only half the headline

Tbh I probably should have cw'ed this thread for spoilers but oh well. The game has been out for a while now.

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@a1ba
And they let you play with a museum exhibit? That's cool.

Vivaldi mobile moved the new tab button and it's screwing with my muscle memory

Hello from first ever Pleroma, and so Fediverse instance, running on Russian MCST Elbrus CPU.

Instance is running in testing mode and will die someday. Let this post federate further so the history will never be forgotten. :)

Ok. I'm confused. I guess it's going to be some critique of gender roles like in Persona 4.

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