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A document from the Apple v. Epic case reveals some new behind-the-scenes details about Microsoft's inner workings.

Microsoft planned to reduce Xbox store cut to 12% like PC, but will no longer do so May 3, 2021 02:40 EDT with 2 comments Last week, Microsoft announced that it will give game developers an 88% revenue cut for titles sold through the Microsoft Store for PC after August 1. This is a notable increase over the current 70-30 split and would bring the storefront in parity with the Epic Games Store, which is also popular among developers for this compelling revenue sharing...

Getty Images Epic Games, the private company behind the massively popular video game Fortnite, will take on the worlds most valuable company in court Monday. In Epic Games v. Apple, Silicon Valleys highest-stakes court case in a decade, the Cary, North Carolina-based game maker will argue that Apple unfairly uses it dominance to lock developers into using its App Store, which it says takes too hefty a slice of their profits. Epic will attempt to make the case that the App Store represen...

Confidential court documents reveal Microsoft had been planning to cut its Xbox store fees. The same 12 percent cut was planned, but Microsoft now says it’s not planning any changes.

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices […]

By Bernard Beanz Smalls Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty The long-awaited legal battle between Fortnite developer Epic Games and Apple finally goes to trial next week, and the witness list is stacked. Fortnite the boot from the App Store after Epic Games revealed it would be bypassing the 30% revenue cut that both the App Store and Google Play store takes when players purchase V-Bucks in Fortnite. In a statement, Epic Games said, “If Apple or Google lower their fees on payment...

Apples trial against Epic Games will begin next week. One key witness, Facebooks VP of gaming, is no longer set to testify. It is unclear why Vivek Sharma was removed from Epics list of witnesses, but Apple had previously sought to have Sharma ousted from the case. Facebooks VP of gaming, Vivek Sharma, who is an outspoken critic of Apples App Store, is no longer set to testify at the Epic Games vs Apple trial due to begin next week. As first reported by Bloomberg: Facebook Inc.s top gaming ex...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple claims Epic is trying to break the iOS platform’s vaunted safety and security for its own gain. Both parties have laid out how they expect to win their respective cases, and this week, they’ve provided near-fi...

Here’s who Apple and Epic are calling to testify in next week’s trial Adi Robertson © Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple claims Epic is trying to break the iOS platform’s vaunted safety and security for its own gain. Both pa...

  The court dealing with the May 3 Apple and Epic trial over App Store rules has used a motion denial to remind the two sides that the trial is meant for measured consideration of evidence, not "surprises." In the filing published on Monday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denies a motion by Apple to prevent Epic from allowing certain third-party witnesses from taking part in the Apple-Epic trial. Apple motioned to the ...