Yeah it still doesnt feel consistent to me. Apple is a large enough marketshare holder for a handheld computer and doesnt even give you an option to sideload another market place. The explanation doesnt make any more sense because google is more open.
Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
Aasikki@sopuli.xyz 11 months agoI guess it makes sense that google lost here, but what doesn’t seem to make sense at all, at least for me, is how on earth apple won when on their platform you literally have no other option than to use apples stuff.
inverted_deflector@startrek.website 11 months ago
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone else commented that the Google trial was jury decided, where the Apple trial was (assumingly) not.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Exactly
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If I had to guess, probably for the same reason you can’t sue for not being able to pick what apps you install on your toaster.
Google probably opened themselves up to this monopoly shit by trying not to be as much of a monopoly as Apple is trying to be.
I’ve heard a lot of lawyers say that the law punishes virtually every good behavior because that behavior can be construed in a way that you can be sued for, and that it favors being a dick more than anything. In this case, that might be what happened?
I mean, not that Google is a saint at all.
Tertle950@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 months ago
That is seventeen flavors of idiotic in one sickly smartphone sundae
Law is hell on earth, and lawyers are devils.
agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lawyers are bad, but I’m starting to think Judges can easily be worse. You get the 'wrong: judge assigned to your case and you’re done. Increasing political polarization in every aspect of life is highlighting how biased these people remain.
Zink@programming.dev 11 months ago
Isn’t a judge just an ascended/evolved lawyer?