An enormous class-action lawsuit accuses Apple of breaking antitrust laws to enforce its commission, inflating app prices for iPhone users. “In the more than a decade since the App Store debuted, we have never raised the commission or added a single fee,” he told lawmakers. It allows people to download apps from outside of its Android app store, meaning app makers like Epic have ample ways to still reach consumers using Android devices. And Google’s vast online advertising business makes its app store a much smaller portion of its overall business. Google collected $10 billion of the $33.8 billion in similar spending on its app store, Sensor Tower said.

Source: New York Times August 14, 2020 22:18 UTC