Well Apple has been getting away with it for years and American regulators are completely asleep at the wheel, so why leave all that money on the table?
Yet Steam has a much larger share of the digital PC games market than Apple has of the smartphone market and the latter is being sued for anti-competitive practices while the former isn't.
Walled gardens have existed for 4 decades. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony all had/have them. “What Apple is doing is not much different … they created a platform.”
“The 30% of what you complain seems to be the industry rate, right? Steam charges 30%. Microsoft: 30% … If you go to consoles: PlayStation, Xbox Nintendo all charged 30%. Physical stores: GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart all charge 30%. Apple and Google charged 30%. It’s all 30%, and you just want to gloss over it. You don’t want to address it,” Judge Gonzalez Rogers says