Missing from the summary but mentioned in reporting elsewhere is that there are apparently talks to hold the 30% in escrow during the trial. More or less, Epic gets to come back, use their own credit card processing, and have 100% of the funds hit their account, just as they were before they got booted, but then 30% of those funds are put in escrow pending the results of the trial. It's theoretically a win-win, since Epic doesn't like losing 10% of Fortnite's revenue and Apple doesn't like this sort of PR.
That's not what the Judge said. Apple can choose to allow Epic back in under the same contract as before and put the 30% into escrow. Apple said we will think about it. Epic said it wasn't a compromise at all. Judge didn't care.
I'll support Epic's bid to force Apple to let other people run their own app stores when they let other people run their own digital shopfronts within Fortnite. I would also like to sell virtual doll clothes.
Google just played the epic Ace card by announcing that the new OS for their cell phone systems will allow for 3rd party payment processors and 3rd party App stores to compete with their own offerings.
Contrary to your claim that they're allowing third-party payment processors, they're doing the exact opposite: they declared their intent to start enforcing their existing payment policy that all apps in the Play Store MUST use Google as their payment processor. That's been their policy all along, but they'll begin enforcing it next year. The reason you may be confused is because they also restated the fact that their Play Store policies do not and have never applie
Missing from the summary but mentioned in reporting elsewhere is that there are apparently talks to hold the 30% in escrow during the trial. More or less, Epic gets to come back, use their own credit card processing, and have 100% of the funds hit their account, just as they were before they got booted, but then 30% of those funds are put in escrow pending the results of the trial. It's theoretically a win-win, since Epic doesn't like losing 10% of Fortnite's revenue and Apple doesn't like this sort of PR.
That's not what the Judge said. Apple can choose to allow Epic back in under the same contract as before and put the 30% into escrow. Apple said we will think about it. Epic said it wasn't a compromise at all. Judge didn't care.
So we're going to have to hear from Apple defenders and Epic defenders for at least another 10 months. Because 2020 wasn't bad enough.
I'll support Epic's bid to force Apple to let other people run their own app stores when they let other people run their own digital shopfronts within Fortnite. I would also like to sell virtual doll clothes.
Google just played the epic Ace card by announcing that the new OS for their cell phone systems will allow for 3rd party payment processors and 3rd party App stores to compete with their own offerings.
Actually, Google said nothing of the sort [googleblog.com].
Contrary to your claim that they're allowing third-party payment processors, they're doing the exact opposite: they declared their intent to start enforcing their existing payment policy that all apps in the Play Store MUST use Google as their payment processor. That's been their policy all along, but they'll begin enforcing it next year. The reason you may be confused is because they also restated the fact that their Play Store policies do not and have never applie