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by Grombobulous 14 days ago
Why isn’t Apple the business with the contact info? They’re taking 15-30% cut and fully control their software APIs.

Unless I’m mistaken, Steam and GOG games aren’t listing the address of the game developers in the EU, but I admit that I might be mistaken.

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Apple is just the delivery man, the app contents are solely created by the developer and are not changed by apple
Because of how the EU law was written
Nope, at least in Play Store it's because of how Google chooses to run their store. Google is the middleman between two sides of the transaction and its the developer that actually sells these apps, while Valve is one of the sides of the transaction and sells things based on the license granted by the developer. Not sure how Apple does it though.
Google publishes seller contact and Google and Apple both do so because of how EU law was written as it pertains to how they set up their stores