Oh wow, did his lawyers head for the door?Sweeney just admitted he uses an iPhone because it safeguards privacy and data better than android phones.
Oh wow, did his lawyers head for the door?Sweeney just admitted he uses an iPhone because it safeguards privacy and data better than android phones.
Be interesting to see if he ever used the Find my iPhone app...Sweeney just admitted he uses an iPhone because it safeguards privacy and data better than android phones.
Oh wow, did his lawyers head for the door?
Well what did they say!?Ouch - judge asks sweeney what will happen if she decides to allow apple to remove unreal from App Store.
I couldn’t quite hear him - he;’s very muffled. He sounded flustered, and I think the gist was “well, then we’ll be out of the store,’ but i could be wrong.Well what did they say!?
I don’t agree that monopolies are bad. It is all subjective. They can be good if everyone benefits, just as they can be abused if only one side benefits.Never said anything about the illegality of Monopolies
Monopolies however are BAD for business and BAD for the consumers. there's a reason why there are anti-trust regulations (and they used to be better enforced)
Monopolies are bad for us. we would all benefit with competition in the space. Competition in business keeps the company honest.
If Apple loses this trial. What happens? Does Apple have to allow other stores, or is it more than that?
Regardless of your opinion of the way Apple runs the App Store or Epic’s litigation tactics, the thing to keep in mind as the trial starts is that the judge is being asked to settle a legal dispute, not set policy. Both companies have made specific claims against the other, which by definition means the judge’s ruling will likely be narrower in scope than it would be in an antitrust case brought by the US government. Nor is any remedy imposed by the judge likely to be as broad as government regulation of the App Store might be someday.
Still, that doesn’t mean the stakes aren’t high; they are. An adverse ruling against Apple could significantly change the way the company operates the App Store and would likely trigger more antitrust lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny in the future.
You will get the ability to independently decide what you want to install on your device. Your i-device have a chance to become yoursIf Apple loses this trial. What happens? Does Apple have to allow other stores, or is it more than that?
You will get the ability to independently decide what you want to install on your device. Your i-device have a chance to become yours
The Economist is a paid site - can you summarize what regulatory issue(s) Apple might face?It sounds that Apple will likely win this case, but Apple may loose the regularly law (source: The Economist). I think Apple maybe wise to make a compromise and change some of its polices slowly. We've already started to see that with the 15% on any app that makes less than $1 million.
12%? No. I sell to stores all day every day, most need 40-50 points.Grocery store markup averages 12%. Ironically the same as Epic Store and Windows Store. However the AppStore is more then a store which is what makes the store a bad analogy.
Source: The EconomistUnderstandably, the commission [EU] is now trying to go down another path. Proposed in December, its Digital Markets Act (dma) avoids lengthy debates about such things as the “relevant market” by explicitly defining a gatekeeper: firms that have annual revenues in the eu of at least €6.5bn in the past three financial years and have at least 45m users in at least three member states. Any company that meets these criteria will have to follow a set of strict rules. Among many other things, barring app developers from linking to their own website would be prohibited, as would be efforts by gatekeepers to give their own offerings a leg up (which Apple stands accused of doing with its music-streaming service).
Although they think along similar lines, regulators in other countries are not as convinced a thick rule book will do the trick. Britain, for instance, is likely to go for more flexibility, paired with a strong regulatory agency, called the Digital Markets Unit (dmu). In America the Federal Trade Commission could become a dmu, although Congress may yet turn growing bipartisan tech hostility into action and pass a dma-like law.
It will still take several years before this is settled, but it would come as a surprise if digital gatekeepers, like many of their analogue predecessors, do not end up being regulated in some manner. Even if it wins its fight with Epic, Apple may want to start changing some of its policies. This may be good business anyway, Bill Gurley, a noted venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, has long argued. Maximising the take rate may backfire because it tends to weaken a platform, he wrote a few years back in a blog post. “There is a big difference between what you can extract versus what you should extract.”■