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You’re right there won’t be any going back. You’re wrong about who is being smart about it.

If Apple wins appeal, they’ll happily and quickly reinstate the fees. It’ll be the app developers who then get stuck paying the fees because, as you mentioned, their users will be used to it and there’s no going back.

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The incredible thing is that under the anti-steering rules, removing the button and providing any explanation would result in the app being banned from the store.

The extent to which "it's our platform so you don't have any rights" has been applied is ridiculous.

"If Apple wins the appeal"

Might as well ask if unicorns are real. Apple only wins the appeal if they bribe the judges. The only reason they've gotten away with it for so long is the U.S. DOJ was unwilling to enforce antitrust laws after the Microsoft debacle.

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