Lol exactly. Hell the implications of this for Apple is further reaching than just game developers. Spotify Premium? Gone. Youtube Premium? Out. The list goes on. This is gonna be one huge blow to Apple imo considering how prevalent in-app purchases really are but we will see how it all turns out.

People at Spotify are already celebrating and want more.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/10/spotify-happy-epic-vs-apple-ruling-wants-more-apple-legislation/

I think we're definitely going to see some industry rule changes being made, because there's no way on earth, that Apple and everyone else are just going to host everything for free, allowing multiple parties to make money within their own gardens and not having to pay a dime, there's going to be some form of cost somewhere along the line. Any sane person wouldn't host anything for free without asking for something in return. 

Yea I will be interested to see how it turns out but I get the feeling it's gonna be like this:

Most companies are probably gonna keep their rate the same as it is if the user chooses app devs payment platform but if they choose to pay with apple pay, they are going to increase the rate by 30% thus more profit for more companies... For better or for worse.

Epic was basically asking Apple for all their limbs and the judge just gave Epic a leg and told Apple they can keep the rest. Sure Apple gets to keep the rest of it's limbs but I think Apple would have rather kept the leg as well.

Apple won, but Epic won on the one point that they actually wanted, the option to have a way to regulate payments outside the store thereby avoiding the 30% fee.

Both of them definitely win and lose. But thinking of the bigger picture perhaps the real winner is small developers that will get to choose the cheapest option to collect payment because let's be honest, the big companies like Epic and Apple collect money from their stores while small app creators will have to shop around for a company that collects their money for the least amount possible. Now, I wonder if this will indirectly affect Sony and MS and their platform stores.

It is actually a win for Epic and others since now they can have their purchase as they intended, they just have to pay back what was on the contract for a time (and 3M is pocket change to them) without even fines.

This part seems to be getting ignored, with people talking about Apple's 30% cut now able to be bypassed.
That's nominally for payment processing, but the real going rate for that is around 10%.
So with above ruliing, Apple will open up payment processor of choice, but just tack on 20% commission.
They may be happy to dump own payment processor at that point, since that isn't really profitable on it's own with 10%.
It was really all about the bonus commission they imposed atop a normal payment processing business. And they keep that.

Here is a video of a corporate lawyer going over the decision.

2 hours and 26 minutes?

Is Epic begging for Fortnite return to iOS yet?