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Apple’s Cut From Fortnite’s In-App Purchases Is Mind-Blowing
By Tyler Lee, on 05/20/2021 03:00 PDT
With the Apple VS Epic lawsuit going on, people are naturally taking sides. Some argue that Epic deserves it because they willfully violated the rules of the App Store that they were content to follow for years. Others argue that Apple’s 30% cut from app sales and in-app purchases is simply too much and that maybe a reckoning is due.
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That being said, it’s easy to see why Epic isn’t thrilled by Apple’s practices. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple’s App Store gaming business development head Michael Schmid recently took the stand to provide testimony in the case, and he revealed that Apple made an estimated $100 million from Fortnite.