In other news: JY Lee has just came out from behind the bars.
What is the connection to this piece of news?
Samsung is a somewhat bigger issue for S Korea than Apple and Google, but it's domestic so it gets a pass.
S.Korea parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance
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#12Re: S.Korea parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance
#13If you wanted to trade on the growing likelihood that they'll be forced to cut fees, which companies will benefit the most? For example Match Inc. gets most of their revenue from Tinder, so any savings would go directly to their bottom line.
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#14What about Steam? They control 90% of PC gaming and even charge regressive commissions, with higher rates for smaller developers.
Sounds like an unrelated topic designed to get people to not focus on the main Google and apple topic. There are dozens of industries that could be broken up but aren’t. Take D*sney’s near monopoly on comic book/fictional characters/plotlines ect. No one bats an eye about that, why would anyone care about steam? It’s all just entertainment. Google and Apple aren’t just about entertainment as they touch almost every part of life in modern society.
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#15What about Steam? They control 90% of PC gaming and even charge regressive commissions, with higher rates for smaller developers.
> bans app store operators with dominant market positions from forcing payment systems on content providers and "inappropriately" delaying the review of, or deleting, mobile contents from app markets.
Does steam block or make it hard for people to download the same programs via other means? looks more like a premium platform rather than a gatekeeper.
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#16What about Steam? They control 90% of PC gaming and even charge regressive commissions, with higher rates for smaller developers.
This seems like a disingenuous whataboutism. You are free to not use Steam as a publisher. You can use Epic/GOG or choose to self-host. The biggest advantage of Steam is the convenience of payments, marketing and infrastructure. If that is not an attractive option for you, you can skip it.
This option is not available for iOS at all and is quite limited on Android.
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#17What about Steam? They control 90% of PC gaming and even charge regressive commissions, with higher rates for smaller developers.
Do they really control 90%?
This four year old article puts Steam game sales revenue at 13% of the total PC gaming sales revenue (and 18% of digital sales revenue):
https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-revenue-2017
Couldn't find any newer stats, but surely it hasn't grown from 13% to 90% in just four years?
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#18If you wanted to trade on the growing likelihood that they'll be forced to cut fees, which companies will benefit the most? For example Match Inc. gets most of their revenue from Tinder, so any savings would go directly to their bottom line.
probably prices will drop to match the new reality
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#19This is a move on the right direction, and is better than nothing.
However, I think that a better move is to force HW platforms (maybe starting at a certain magnitude) to let the users use any software market they desire. This way Apple and Google can continue forcing the apps on their own markets to use their payment systems and "keep the users safe", while the other markets can do whatever they like