By Rodolfo León 0 COMMENTS 11/26/2020 3:03 pm
This year, Apple and Epic Games faced a legal dispute over the 30 percent commission charged by the App Store, and that Epic considered as “extortion”. Last month, the judge in charge of the case warned that the result could have consequences for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo due to the similar model that the three companies use. But nevertheless, Phil Spencer he doesn’t think this should even be comparable.
In a recent interview with The Verge, Spencer He mentioned that the comparison was not fair because Apple products are “general computing platforms” while the number of consoles sold in a whole generation is less than the number of smartphones sold each year.
“If you look at the simple scale, there are a billion mobile phones on the planet. Those are general computing platforms. A video game console only…
