Apple Argues to Get App Store Injunction Thrown Out in Epic v. Apple Appeal

[Michael Scrip]

And Apple didn't mind taking billions from Google to have their search engine as the default, but that didn't stop them from bashing them.

Good point!

 

[Abazigal]

Which is fine until said company starts violating antitrust regulations, regardless if it's about making their products or not.

What antitrust regulation has Apple violated? It’s their hardware, their OS, their rules.

 

[Samplasion]

What antitrust regulation has Apple violated? It’s their hardware, their OS, their rules.

I was referring to the DMA and DSA.

 

[I7guy]

I was referring to the DMA and DSA.

They didn’t violate that. Apple has not been proven to run afoul of antitrust regulations as it relates to iOS.

 

[FreedomPenguin]

You're free to do whatever you want, but I don't get why you would want to limit users who do want to support game developers through means other than the App Store.


Are you equating gaming consoles to a device that, in this day and age, it's impossible to live without? Between Google and Apple, the latter are the only OS makers who don't allow sideloading.

Because you are wanting to ruin an established iOS that’s perfectly secure

 

[jakey rolling]

Actually it does make it so. That's how it works. You agree to those terms and conditions to use the App Store.

Laws override contracts. That's about as basic a concept as exists in the legal arena. If there is a law that states that the consumer owns the copy of the software that they have purchased, then that is what happens, regardless of what terms and conditions have been agreed to.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Laws override contracts. That's about as basic a concept as exists in the legal arena. If there is a law that states that the consumer owns the copy of the software that they have purchased, then that is what happens, regardless of what terms and conditions have been agreed to.

Can you please cite the US law that states you own all software when you purchase it?

 

[jakey rolling]

It doesn't matter in the legal or technological perspective. In case of PS, Xbox, Nintendo, iOS, Smart TVs, and many other devices you have the same setup: an end user device, built in software and its own shop / walled garden. Cherry picking and regulating only one is hypocritical.

Considering use cases and context around how devices are built, marketed, and used is "cherry picking". Ignoring context is the only way to not be "hypocritical". Now this is hilarious.

 

[jakey rolling]

Can you please cite the US law that states you own all software when you purchase it?

The US is only one of many countries in which an iPhone is sold. Don't be disingenuous.