Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

• phx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But if they force Google to open their app store, I hope that do it for fucking everyone.

  At least on Google devices you still can sideload apps, and fairly easy TBH. My biggest annoyance is the “you can’t buy stuff in apps without giving us a cut” which fucked up stuff like ebook apps etc

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  • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, the Kindle app pretty blatantly tells you why they removed in-app purchases.

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• Darkhoof@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In the US it does.

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  • themurphy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, but US favour companies over people.

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure the ruling in this post is in the US.

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      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s why we are surprised. But given this went through, maybe they could go for it again who knows.

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      • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And it’s two companies fighting, how far did the monopoly pushes against apple and google get before Epic took them up?

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  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but they also have more rights than the consumer, rather than the other way about lol

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure the ruling in this post is in the US

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which is weird because they have a larger market share than Google >.>

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They have a 99% market share on iPhone though. Google has less on Android.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Who has the other 1% on iPhone?

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Jailbroken I assume

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  • notapantsday@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …in the US

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    • abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Like this case?

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which is all the US courts would be looking at.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No they don’t.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They absolutely do. This case would only look at US market share, they don’t care about anywhere else. And why would they? Imagine a company with 10% US market share and 90% worldwide market share, would you expect US courts to deem that a monopoly?

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    • Maestro@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In the US, market share of Apple is between 50-60% while Android is between 40-50%, depending on the source. Worldwide is more in favour of Android, but this is a US lawsuit.

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• anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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