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they could rationalize any shit take they wanted to push by saying “thousands of people on twitter are concerned about X problem”

A lot of the time they don't put any number on the people, and then it turns out they wrote a whole-ass article on what dozens of people on twitter are saying.

To sell a game outside Apple’s App Store, developers must effectively pay a 50 euro cent per user per year installation fee once they reach a certain number of downloads. If developers want to link users to purchases outside the app, they’ll also need to fork out a 10 percent commission on all sales made “on any platform” — including outside of iOS. That’s on top of a 5 percent commission on purchases made within one year of the app’s installation. Then, they’d have to pay any fees charged by the operator of the new marketplace. In Epic’s case, that’s 12 percent — a significant discount on its own, but a major addition once you factor in Apple’s costs.

Checking Apple's fee calculator, apps that publish exclusively on third party stores don't have to pay Apple any commission, just the core technology fee. That makes it a bit less crazy, and I don't think article mentions it. Epic could save itself a lot of money by just not using the App Store but complaining is much more fun for Tim Sweeney.

He may give everybody a vote, doesn't mean he'll let them all count.

D’Amore also noted how proud he was to build the team behind the scenes, saying the company was “deader than dead” as a brand and he had an 80 hour plus obsession to rebuild it, naming Tommy Dreamer, Jimmy Jacobs and Robert Evans specifically as part of the team.

He's talking about when he arrived in 2017, not now. PWInsider should have been clearer in their summary.

But remember, advertisers boycotting XTwitter is horrible and illegal and mean and against the First Amendment.

I don't know how many states did that bullshit. I just know terrible right-wing ideas usually spread, so I assume if there's one there's probably more.

I would expect Georgia is one of the states where it's illegal to give water to people in line to vote.

the only complaint came from a Russian boxing body with a history of making suspect claims in the past

And that was only after she defeated a previously undefeated Russian. Sounds an awful lot like sore losers making up excuses.

Have you heard about AIPAC spending loads of money to take out pro-Palenstinian incumbents in the primaries? They can probably cause Harris more trouble in the election than the pro-Palestinian protesters.

They needed to have something that might be less appealing than an AI assistant

They're already demanding search engines pay to search Reddit; will they have to pay even more to search paid subreddits?

A stool test sure, but I'm not going to trust a toilet to use a sterile needle to draw blood.