{"id":917,"date":"2021-03-23T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T06:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/two-goliaths-apple-labels-epics-australian-challenge-to-in-app-purchases-self-serving\/"},"modified":"2021-03-23T07:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T06:43:37","slug":"two-goliaths-apple-labels-epics-australian-challenge-to-in-app-purchases-self-serving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/two-goliaths-apple-labels-epics-australian-challenge-to-in-app-purchases-self-serving\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Two Goliaths&#8217;: Apple labels Epic&#8217;s Australian challenge to in-app purchases &#8216;self-serving&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal court to decide whether Fortnite maker\u2019s case can be heard while legal action under way in US<\/p>\n<p>Apple has argued that Epic Games\u2019 case against the tech giant\u2019s in-app purchase system is not altruistically trying to secure a better deal for Australian customers and app developers in the app store, but the \u201cself-serving\u201d act of a Goliath trying to fundamentally change Apple\u2019s business model.<\/p>\n<p>The popular video game Fortnite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/aug\/13\/fortnite-maker-lawsuit-apple-app-store-removal\">was kicked off both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store<\/a> in August after Epic bypassed the companies\u2019 in-app payment methods for their own cheaper direct billing that prevented Apple and Google taking a share.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/23\/two-goliaths-apple-labels-epics-australian-challenge-to-in-app-purchases-self-serving\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f44c6e3cb8e2dcfe68ae3a1dd427b251df4363e2\/456_0_5544_3327\/master\/5544.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=714ff957757c08d01ef04e05b6c188ad\" title=\"'Two Goliaths': Apple labels Epic's Australian challenge to in-app purchases 'self-serving'\" \/>Federal court to decide whether Fortnite maker\u2019s case can be heard while legal action under way in US<br \/>\nApple has argued that Epic Games\u2019 case against the tech giant\u2019s in-app purchase system is not altruistically trying to secure a better deal for Australian customers and app developers in the app store, but the \u201cself-serving\u201d act of a Goliath trying to fundamentally change Apple\u2019s business model.<br \/>\nThe popular video game Fortnite was kicked off both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store in August after Epic bypassed the companies\u2019 in-app payment methods for their own cheaper direct billing that prevented Apple and Google taking a share. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal court to decide whether Fortnite maker\u2019s case can be heard while legal action under way in US Apple has argued that Epic Games\u2019 case against the tech giant\u2019s in-app purchase system is not altruistically trying to secure a better deal for Australian customers and app developers in the app store, but the \u201cself-serving\u201d act &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/two-goliaths-apple-labels-epics-australian-challenge-to-in-app-purchases-self-serving\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Two Goliaths&#8217;: Apple labels Epic&#8217;s Australian challenge to in-app purchases &#8216;self-serving&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}