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Epic Games released a version of Fornite offering alternative payment methods last year, which was going against Apple App Store developer terms. Epic then started a PR campaign against app stores #freefornite and sued Apple and Google for monopolist behaviour in the mobile payments space. What does Epic want and what are the implications?
In this video:
00:00 Intro
00:11 Context
00:57 Why is Epic suing Apple?
02:08 Limited choice
03:37 Developer restrictions
05:42 Forced 30% fee
07:04 What’s at stake?
10:04 Personal take: market
12:13 Personal take: potential solutions
14:37 EU, Senate, House Committee
Access Apple and Epic presentations: https://app.box.com/s/6b9wmjvr582c95uzma1136exumk6p989/folder/136698646305