Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoApple wouldn’t have to if they didn’t artificially prevent competitor app stores from being installed on iPhones. An app store is just software that tells the OS to install another piece of software. They are not complicated or hard to code, Apple just installs one with your phone and prevents any apps from being installed except through it, and then they refuse to host other app stores.
This is them using their market share in phones, to avoid competing fairly with third party software app stores like Steam.
They claim they have to install every thing through their app store for security reasons and there’s no possible other way to build it (horseshit), so rightfully then, to prevent them from illegally tieing two unrelated products together, they have to host Epic on the App Store.
And let me be frank. Your assertion that Epic is not a good company and Apple is not a good company, in the same breadth, is false equivalency horseshit.
Apple charges mafia 30% of all software REVENUE in addition to their other anti-competitive bullshit. They use their dominant platform position to be an absolute drag on the economy at large.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
Have you actually looked at the iPhones market share? They don’t have a monopoly, far from it - Android is the market leader in phone OS’s by a country mile.
Not at all. Epic have rules on what games can be hosted on the Epic Game Store too btw.
Apple don’t have a dominant platform position. They do not have a monopoly. They do not have to allow competitors to operate on their platform.
Your entire post is based on an incorrect premise.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
57% US market share. This decision has no bearing on any other market, and to expand the view to the global market is disingenuous.
I can install Steam if Epic doesn’t allow a game I want on it, or install it directly from the developer. You don’t have that option with the iPhone.
Yes, they do. Especially when that platform is synonymous with 57% of the hardware in use.
Ironic.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I have maybe a handful of people on lemmy tagged, if that. That means, those where the most stupid, ignorant, obnoxious, disingenious people, or otherwise not worth of serious discourse, to the point i felt it necessary to remember that with a tag.
Now this guy i have put down as “that weird guy who really loves corporations”. Make of that what you want for your conversation.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
So well outside of monopoly territory. Thanks for checking :)
And you’re not entitled to that option. It’s apples product and they don’t have to build ways for competitors to eat their lunch, nor should they. If you want a platform that allows you to install stuff from any source, get an android phone or one that does.
Why? 57% is far, FAR, below where anti-competition and anti-trust rules come in to play.
Says the guy who thinks 57% market share in a market with 2 players is a monopoly lol.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I mean sure, ignoring the fact that the justice department is actively suing Apple for being a monopoly, Apple isn’t a monopoly.
Ignoring the fact that a court of law ordered the situation being reported on, there’s no reason Apple should have to do what they are doing.
As long as we ignore reality, the things you’re claiming make perfect sense.
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masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
My fucking god youre both remarkably dumb, and remarkably confident in how dumb you are.
Please do us all a favour and go and read the Wikipedia article on anti-competitive behaviour and anti-competition laws before commenting.
And just in case you lack the mental faculties to actually parse that Wikipedia article, the key lesson we’re looking for you to learn is that you do not need a a monopoly to behave anti-competitively, you just need market power.