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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 option, among other things. Now, it has been revealed that Microsoft investigated the possibility o...

Getty Images Epic Games, the private company behind the massively popular video game Fortnite, will take on the world's most valuable company in court Monday. In Epic Games v. Apple, Silicon Valley's 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 represents an illegal use of Apple's market power. Even if Apple is a legal monopoly, according to the ant...

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 […]