To sell a game outside Apple’s App Store, developers must effectively pay a 50 euro cent per user per year installation fee once they reach a certain number of downloads. If developers want to link users to purchases outside the app, they’ll also need to fork out a 10 percent commission on all sales made “on any platform” — including outside of iOS. That’s on top of a 5 percent commission on purchases made within one year of the app’s installation. Then, they’d have to pay any fees charged by the operator of the new marketplace. In Epic’s case, that’s 12 percent — a significant discount on its own, but a major addition once you factor in Apple’s costs.

Checking Apple’s fee calculator, apps that publish exclusively on third party stores don’t have to pay Apple any commission, just the core technology fee. That makes it a bit less crazy, and I don’t think article mentions it. Epic could save itself a lot of money by just not using the App Store but complaining is much more fun for Tim Sweeney.

He may give everybody a vote, doesn’t mean he’ll let them all count.

But remember, advertisers boycotting XTwitter is horrible and illegal and mean and against the First Amendment.

I don’t know how many states did that bullshit. I just know terrible right-wing ideas usually spread, so I assume if there’s one there’s probably more.

I would expect Georgia is one of the states where it’s illegal to give water to people in line to vote.

the only complaint came from a Russian boxing body with a history of making suspect claims in the past

And that was only after she defeated a previously undefeated Russian. Sounds an awful lot like sore losers making up excuses.

Have you heard about AIPAC spending loads of money to take out pro-Palenstinian incumbents in the primaries? They can probably cause Harris more trouble in the election than the pro-Palestinian protesters.

They’re already demanding search engines pay to search Reddit; will they have to pay even more to search paid subreddits?

A stool test sure, but I’m not going to trust a toilet to use a sterile needle to draw blood.

The article says OpenAI made a deal with Reddit, so blocking Microsoft isn’t going to keep Reddit’s data from getting fed to OpenAI

Seems like Trump’s people didn’t do any digging to vet Vance, but the MAGA crowd will write it all off as fake news anyway.

He doesn’t have immunity for the crimes but there is testimony about things he said to staff while in office and the Supreme Court has declared such conversations off-limits. They really went out of their way to cover for Trump, except for the part where Biden would probably have immunity for having him killed.

The president couldn’t be charged for taking the billionaires’ money but the money could still be returned. An assassination can’t be undone.

As opposed to the discs movies are sold on.

Apparently “recordable media” here means the kind you can record on at home, e.g. CD-R, DVD-R.

I think he’d at least need to be clear on which part is a lie; did the killings not actually happen or are they not his fault?

With any tech that allows the same quality with less data, there will always be someone pushing to cut quality to save even more data.

Why are “addictive feeds” OK for adults?

Scrutiny!? Whatever will she do? (Tell Fox News she’s being persecuted, probably)

“There are so many other loopholes, we should focus on the ones poor people use”