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Huge App Store change due to Epic v. Apple ruling
A federal judge handed down a ruling in the Epic v. Apple case this morning, and both parties got partial wins.
Epic got most of what it asked the court for: the ability to use its own payment mechanism rather than Apple's.
This is a blow for Apple, but the case wasn't a total loss for Cupertino. The judge found that Apple isn't a monopolist (which is important), and declined Epic's other request to allow iPhone apps to be sideloaded.
Because of the ruling, the App Store will change in a big way. Developers will be allowed to handle their own payment systems rather than rely on Apple (and pay Cupertino's 15% to 30% cut).
Stripe, the fast-growing online payment giant, will likely be the big winner here.
There's a great wrinkle to the tale, too: Epic is still banned from the App Store for running its own in-app payment system, which is now allowed under the judge's ruling. Funny that.
-- Leander Kahney, EIC.
Apple has been ordered by a federal judge to allow iPhone software developers to point customers to their own websites to make in-app purchases. Previously, Apple required all these transactions to happen through its payment system. This is the primary result of the Epic Games v. Apple lawsuit. And it’s exactly what Epic asked for in the first place.
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One more thing ...
"I don't think much about my time of life. I just get up in the morning and it's a new day. Somebody told me when I was 17 to live each day as if it were my last, and that one day I'd be right. I am at a stage where I don't have to do things just to get by. But then I've always been that way because I've never really cared about money that much. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel the same way now as I felt when I was 17." -- Steve Jobs
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