Vox

AUGUST 20, 2020

Epic says that Apple’s requirement that all mobile apps come through its App Store (and the 30 percent commission Apple charges for app sales and in-app purchases) is a monopoly, and that Epic — as well as its fellow developers and their customers — should have alternatives. Both companies responded by banning Fortnite.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

If we lived in a world with more than two mobile phone operating systems, it seems unlikely that Apple would be able to take 30 percent of an email app’s revenue just for hosting it in an app store. But these changes suggest that Apple is taking an important question — who has the right to conduct business? Industry. ?

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We love our mobile apps. And if you’re reading it on an iPhone, then you got that app through the App Store, the Apple-owned and -operated gateway for apps on its phones. Apple is facing growing scrutiny for the tight control it has over so much of the mobile-first, app-centric world it created. Apple makes the phones.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Axios writes: One antitrust lawyer familiar with the workings of the FTC said the Office of Policy Planning “would not want to move the needle much” with antitrust guidelines, and is generally reluctant to consider new definitions for anticompetitive behavior. “ What’s more, she added, those papers didn’t focus on either Apple or Amazon.

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