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		jkaplowitz on Sept 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store polici... > Presumably, if they’d said “because that’s what Google is/was charging”, it could be pursued as price fixing. That's not price fixing if they make the decision to match Google on their own, rather than in concert with Google.

sjwright on Sept 29, 2020 [–]

If Apple chose to match the existing industry standard percentage but has not fixed any prices, is that price-fixing?

jkaplowitz on Sept 29, 2020 | [–]

Not without coordination with other vendors, no.

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