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• But so far only 15% of the top 250 mobile game companies have moved to the web shops made by Coda or Xsolla and others.“App store competition doesn’t have to fit the Apple App Store and Google Play mode,” Sweeney said.
• There are plenty of apps that are distributed by stores in China, or major distributors like WeChat.“Every social media platform could distribute apps and become an app store itself, if Apple rules didn’t prevent them from doing that as well,” Sweeney said.
• But Testut said Apple has taken 30 days to review every single app before it gets distributed to the AltStore.And twice during these delays, Apple made changes to its own app store rules to allow the apps before Apple approved the apps for the AltStore.
• The store is launching with Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe and the all-new Fall Guys for mobile, and Epic Games is working to enable all developers to launch their games and apps through the Epic Games Store in the future.
• Then, Allison said, there are dead-end screens, where the process of installing the store just stops.“The journey continues in this way for about 15 steps,” Allison said.
• By the end of the year, Epic Games hopes to drive 100 million net new installs of the store across mobile devices.Still, there are things to be concerned about, Allison said.