Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store

psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The worst person you know just made a great point

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lmao, the fuckepic and ‘Tim Sweeney is a bastard man’ sentiments were always wildly overblown.

  The fact that anyone took Apple’s side in this case because the Epic game store paid for a couple exclusive games to try and break into the market is laughably childish.

  Apple literally rips off the entire world to the tune of billions of dollars a year through app store mafia extortion fees alone, let alone the rest of their anti-competitive bullshit.

  Epic was just trying to break into the Apple / Google / Steam monopolies and made a couple unpopular / anti-consumer business moves on a couple games, Apple has based their literal entire business model on anti-consumer choices and done that for every single hardware and software device they sell you.

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• Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Always fuck epic, but fuck Apple harder.

  That there’s a very narrow overlap of epic and general consumer/other devs interests doesn’t make epic good.

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recommend liberal use of the concept of critical support

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Epic’s most redeeming quality is their willingness to take bigger companies to court for their trash policies. Now if only we could get the FTC to do their jobs so Epic wouldn’t have to…

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn’t Elon gut the FTC?

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes but Apple did not build this system in the last 3 months, they’ve done it over the course of 3 decades.

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• real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tbh for a broken clock Sweeney shows the right time remarkably often. Can’t believe it, the bar for people like him is so low just being consistent is noteworthy lol

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• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s always fun when two terrible tech giants fight it out.

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  • Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Indeed, a little bit of intra-class war for them, for a change.

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