![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “(a) the name of each App on Steam (b) the date range when the App was available on Steam and (c) the price of the App and any in-app product available on Steam.” Valve’s: (a) total yearly sales of apps and in-app products (b) annual advertising revenues from Steam (c) annual sales of external products attributable to Steam (d) annual revenues from Steam and (e) annual earnings (whether gross or net) from Steam. Here is the data Apple wanted, which its lawyers somehow described as a “very narrow” request: PC Gamer reports that Valve refused Apple’s demand, and now a court needs to rule on the matter. The data that Apple demanded from Valve – which is not even a party to the case – was pretty insane… The reason? Epic previously criticized Steam’s cut from game developers, accusing platform owner Valve of “sucking out a huge fraction of the profits from games.” Apple wanted to understand more about Valve’s business model with Steam in order to help it make its own case for the App Store. Apple might position itself as the champion of privacy when it comes to personal data, but court records showed that the company demanded hugely sensitive data from game distribution service Steam to help in the battle with Epic Games. ![]()
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