> Can anyone point to a single major technology product/service/app, like Spotify or something where after Apple has ceded control over the App Store the company has lowered prices, or perhaps instituted tougher privacy controls than Apple has demanded on the App Store?

Epic?

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ericmay 2 days ago | parent [-]

What prices were lowered? Or was there another improvement such as further privacy restrictions against developers?

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ethbr1 2 days ago | parent [-]

The original 2020 discount was literally what sparked the Apple/Google-Epic lawsuits.

https://www.vg247.com/fortnite-v-bucks-discount-epic-direct

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ericmay 2 days ago | parent [-]

That was prior to ceding control - now that companies have the ability to stand up their own app stores and do direct payments (as I understand to be the case now at least), where have prices gone down?

VBucks are still $8 aren't they?

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ethbr1 2 days ago | parent [-]

With 20% Epic rewards, if you use Epic's store. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/better-deals-in-fortn...

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ericmay 2 days ago | parent [-]

So after all the legal mess and crusading and white knighting about the Apple App Store what we got in return is now buy the same product as I did before for the same price in dollars, but I can get 20% of my purchase price back in what is the equivalent of carnival tokens if I use Epic’s proprietary payment system?

Do you wholeheartedly believe that this counts as lowering prices or providing improvements? Are the Vbucks still $8 or no?

	▲	ethbr1 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		You can choose to value company store bucks however you want, but they're worth >$0, which means that yes, Epic lowered prices. (Reasonably, considering they're saving a good chunk of the App Store tax)