Entrepreneur Ilon Mask rose on the side of Epic Games in the dispute company with Apple. The corresponding publication appeared in twitter mask.
The founder of Tesla and Spacex said that the App Store store fees are actually global Internet tax. “EPIC is right,” concluded mask.
In the tweet series, the American entrepreneur continued to criticize Apple. Mask explained that he loves and enjoys IT-giant products, however, it considers fees in the amount of 30 percent overestimated. According to him, such a tax that does not imply “no actions on the side of Apple,” looks completely unreasonable. “EPIC would not have the processing of in-game payments directly, if Apple fee fair,” said Mask.
also the entrepreneur noticed that usually pressure from competitors helps to reduce the commission, however, Apple and Android have a dopoly on the smartphone market. “The current tax in the amount of 30 percent charged by Apple is hidden from its users, otherwise it would cause protest among them,” the founder of Tesla and Spacex.
At the end of July, Ilon Mask accused Apple in dishonest acts on the market. Closed App Store Entrepreneur called a “fenced garden used to beat competitors.”
In August 2020, Apple deleted the profile of the developers of the popular game Fortnite Epic Games for implementing embedded payments bypassing the App Store rules. In response, the developers of the game filed by Tim Cook to Court.