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How is this different from the console manufacturers? Yes even when you buy a physical disk the console maker get a cut.


In principle consoles are not different, and lawyers looking at Apple/Google stores are also wondering what impact would a ruling in this field have on consoles as well.

I think nobody goes after consoles for now because there is no big enough business case getting hurt, and they’re kind of grandfathered in people’s perception.




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