We have always had a choice to choose a closed garden or an open one. Even when there are monopolies our system has taken care of the free market. Apples situation is completely different because they don’t have a monopoly in the mobile sector. It’s the software on the phone that people keep crying about. They want to force Apples vision to an Android phone instead of just buying an android phone.
I'm all for Epic playing by those same rules. There is however this 7.5B market size threshold. Can you agree that market size/importance matters?
its the american dream so I can see the allure. but yea at some point we have antitrust/anticompetitive laws so businesses cant abuse their position. apple has immense power to push for an unfavorable deal, and it doesnt matter android exists an app developer cant just ignore half their market. market power + leverage = unfair
That is what I meant. They have not shown themselves to be a company with high standards, but they have to live by their choices. It didn't work when they broke their contract because they lost millions when Fortnite was knocked out of iOS and Android stores. They must do better.
And of course, you know it to be fact that counter to their public position, Apple doesn't privately think that they may be on shaky legal ground and a simple notification of a probe being opened didn't come in from an EU representative that perhaps may have made Apple rethink their decision. K lol.Because everyone (except you, apparently) knows enough about government processes to know that the government didn't start a probe, finish it, analyze and discuss their findings, and then make a decision in less than 24 hours.
Offer their services at decreased prices lol
There's no defending Epic because that's not the point. Apple has tried to pull a PR stunt, but the crux of the matter is that they abused the control they were allowed to retain for security purposes in order to paint Epic as the evil company. The truth is that under the DMA, Apple shouldn't have the power to block apps for reasons other than security, so, should they pull something like this again, I reckon they'd be fined almost immediately by the EU.
A side-loaded app that has not been reviewed by Apple could do anything! And if it has been reviewed by Apple, what's the harm in having it in a separate App Store you have to download so there is accountability there?
Well given that Epic has their developer account back and will now be able to take payments directly from users, at least in the EU, and even make their own app store there -- things that would've been against Apple's rules when they broke the rules -- it seems several adjudicating bodies agree with me that the rules were unjust.
Alright let me give you 3 examples..
The joke is that Epic Games could have played by Apple's rules and kept raking in millions of dollars but they decided that wasn't enough, broke their contract, and got nothing.
No, Apple realised this stupid move to block epic was going to get the EU to completely tear apart Apple’s approach to the DMA which is an entirely ropey approach to it. It’ll happen eventually anyway, but now it won’t be so soon.
Here's how it's seen by others
And given that it was a span of maybe 24 hours from start to now...I seriously doubt the EU had ANYTHING to do with this. You really believe those several adjudicating bodies investigated the problem, compiled their evidence, discussed their findings, and came to an agreement on what to do in 24 hours? No government on earth works that fast. None.
I bet Apple knew they weren't in the right when they denied it, so they first disabled Epic's account to prove a point, and then reinstated it to come off as "the good guys"
Not all companies are governed by greed.
