Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Epic games suit over Apple

Epic games which is named for its best android game competing the PUBG that is Fortnite recently got its game removed from Apple playstore. Following this google Play Store also removed the game due to some issues. Generally whenever some one buys a game previously 20 years back they use to buy the game from a store. For which the store raises the price of the game of about 50%. They cover the maintenance of the store and giving the salaries to the employees and everything. This has been removed after the entry of the digital games. Now people are downloading the games from Steam or PlayStation digital versions of the games. With this the cost paid by the user is reduced to 20-30%. After the invention of the Apple iPhones Steve jobs has introduced the Appstore for the app downloads. In the same way android has copied the idea and has its own appstore. In the android devices with the buying of phones a user gets some apps pre-installed. This is for the Playstore to raise some money in terms of users using Gmail,Google maps and some of the pre installed applications. In the same way Apple's appstore will lay some tax whenever a developer publishes application in the appstore. And also whenever there is in app purchase apple lays off 3% as the apple tax. And 30% on the app purchases. Because of this tax Fortnite and Amazon Prime is making the payment in the application without any knowledge to the application. Because of this Apple removed the Fortnite from its appstore and since Amazon is the major contributor and biggest rival company for the apple it is not doing anything regarding those things. Because of the same reason it has laid off the Spotify from its Store. For this reason Spotify has laid a suit regarding the apple tax. In the same way Epic games also laid the same suit. But they are asking for the court to see this as a monopoly done by apple. Let us see what is going to happen. In the recent interviews doen by EU also raised these questions to many tech companies like Facebook,Google, Microsoft.