Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world 11 months agoI wonder how that’s going to play out with Apple and their monopoly.
Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world 11 months agoI wonder how that’s going to play out with Apple and their monopoly.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A lot of this case hinged on the fact that Google wasn’t treating everyone the same. They had a lot of private details for big companies.
Unless Apple also has secret deals, then this isn’t going to impact them.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Apple doesn’t need to make any deals at all because you simply can’t install any other app stores, or any apps outside of the Apple app store.
That’s the crazy thing, that they lost their case and Apple won, despite Apple having WAY more control.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Apple wouldn’t need to have secret deals. They’re running a walled garden over there.
The problem is Google wanted to have what Apple has: a closed ecosystem they can exploit. But they don’t have that, at least not to the same degree. Android is not “theirs”, even if they’ve increasingly managed to make the Play Store more inseparable as time as gone by.
The most they can do is scare people away from using third party app stores or doing anything with Android they don’t approve of, and when it comes to things like Play Integrity and Play Protection, they can punish you for stepping outside their bounds by breaking certain functionality. But they can’t outright control anything.