<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related ongoing thread:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39020365&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39020365&lt;/a&gt; - Jan 2024 (238 comments)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-snubs-epic-games-legal-battle-with-apple-2024-01-16/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>somenameforme</author><text>It seems easy to kind of shrug at this, but this does seem quite significant because of many mobile apps are &amp;#x27;free to play.&amp;#x27; Apple pocketing 30% of all of these transactions, and forcing users&amp;#x2F;devs to go through Apple, is a major part of its revenue. And all of those apps now have the option to direct users to alternative payment methods, where they can both charge users substantially less and make more profit doing so. Should be interesting to see what happens!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-snubs-epic-games-legal-battle-with-apple-2024-01-16/</url></story>