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Apple, Google and Fortnite’s stoush is a big tech arm wrestle – News – The University of Sydney
Apple, Google and Epic Games are in a power struggle over in-app payments. Dr Marcus Carter and Dr Kyle Moore, our resident Fortnite experts, explain why.
According to Fortnites Twitter account, more than 12 million concurrent players got online for an event earlier this year. Photo: Pixabay
Reminiscent of antitrust charges against Microsoft in the 1990s, critics of Apple and Google have described the tech behemoths as anti-competitive monopolies charging an unreasonable 30% transaction fee.
This falls to 15% in the case of subscription-based apps but only after an initial year of Apple charging the 30% fee. For perspective, PayPal only charges …
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