Its all-inclusive model may go away and it may instead charge developers to host paid apps as well as billing them merchant fees for payment services. While this would potentially put a stop to this chapter, Epic might still end up in court with Google, and that would still set a precedent that would affect Apple.Īnd when this is all over, Apple might reconsider the whole system anyway. If it did, one might conclude that Epic will get a special deal, similar to the one Apple apparently did with Amazon to secure the Prime Video Store on iOS devices.
This feels fairly unlikely, as it could have already done this. It is also possible that Apple might settle with Epic directly during the trial. She also said “It’s hard to ignore the economics of the industry, which is what you’re asking me to do.” This doesn’t feel like a particularly likely outcome, especially as last year Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said “Walled gardens have existed for decades,” citing other games companies like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Developers with big pockets will attempt to negotiate better deals or regulators may decide to cap the maximum a company can charge. If that happens, there might be some moderate chaos in the industry. The second possibility is that Epic wins the case outright, having convinced the court that this model is unfair.
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