It's not a judge's job to be "pro" anything, it's their job to follow the rule of law. As long as she justifies her decision from a legal standpoint I have no issue.
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Judge Grills Tim Cook on App Store Policies as End of of Epic Games v. Apple Trial Approaches
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This isn't a criminal case. This a civil lawsuit. The judge here here's arguments over contracts and listens to the defendant's and plaintiff's interpretations, then picks a side.
It's amazing that a person who didn't create anything can destroy a service and a company because he personally thinks they should act differently - although no law has been broken.
Well, Microsoft never broke any laws when they bundled Internet Explorer with Windows. Unlike Apple, they even allowed other rendering engines!
I wonder if this judge will send out a survey to the defendants?
And Microsoft was never sued or sanctioned for bundling Internet Explorer. If you are going to bring up the old trope at least do is in context and with the actual facts of the case.
That's the thing that baffles me. Everyone celebrated the antitrust legislation that hit Microsoft back then, and looking back they (and the software business as a whole) didn't placed that many restrictions to competitors
He also explained that having a large number of apps available for free increases the traffic to the App Store, creating a much larger audience for gaming apps than would be available if there weren't free apps available.
LOL Mr. Crook, there is a simple solution for this, let people sideload Apps and then the traffic moves far far away from Apple Servers to Devs CDN Servers.
LOL Mr. Crook, there is a simple solution for this, let people sideload Apps and then the traffic moves far far away from Apple Servers to Devs CDN Servers.
Has the judge ever used an App Store to download an app? She must know this technology didn’t just appear without work behind it
The judge seems well-intentioned, but it sounds like tech may be a tad outside of their realm. Reminds me of congress having hearings on online privacy and security.
Apple’s iOS policies are exponentially more anti-competitive than anything 90s Bill Gates could come up with in his wildest dreams. The fact that they’ve been allowed to get away scott free is truly baffling.
I don't want to pull another link of my pocket.
You know the antitrust law is to promote competition which benefits consumer, in reversed conclusion: "pro antitrust law = pro consumer".
It's the job of the Judge to grill the defendant so the court does not seem ignorant of the issues or biased to one side or the other. Cook answered deftly and intelligently.
Walmart also sell bread though. And yes, they should take a cut if you buy bread from them.
Should Walmart be forced to allow the bread company advertise that they are cheaper if purchased elsewhere ? That is the real question.
At least he's being honest. I'll give him that. I already knew that blocking sideloading on iOS was really just about $$$.
He just confirmed it.
Judges often grill each side to fully explore the subject. It’s not an indication of what they will eventually rule.
Bread companies don’t sell directly to consumers (unless you’re willing to buy a truck load of bread) so this scenario would never happen in the first place.
Will it actually benefit the consumer though unless the App developers are also forced to drop their fee's by 30% if Apple also dropped their commission.
There is no evidence to suggest they would. Just like Epic did not drop their fee's by 30% when they did those direct in-app sales.
This is faulty logic. Blocking side loading has a significant security implication as well as ensuring monetization. They are not mutually exclusive.
I know quite a few that have their own bakeries and also have stands in supermarkets.
Before August 13th, she says… well, I sure hope it’s sooner rather than later! She did stress that she feels it’s best to get these things resolved while everything’s still fresh, so I’ve got some faith.
Are you unfamiliar with bakeries?
Dude , they are targeting kids in a VERY obvious way to spend virtual bucks on cosmetics and they are making 4x the money then their unreal engine and all the rest of their business together , you took some games they made ages ago and put them up as an example of what exactly unreal tournament , that far ha ?!?!?! unreal engine monetization scheme is bad for game developers , which is why the big game developers are opting out of using the unreal engine and doing their own thing , RAGE from rockstar , CDProjectREd , Bethesda and many more of the top dogs , the medium/smaller size developers have no option but to go with it as Unity and Unreal are basically the iOS & Android of the game engine world today.
Their Epic store basically brought the "console" style of gaming to the PC world (sad sad day), in which they pay for exclusive titles for their store , so that Valve wont be able to offer them in their own store , so competing in the worst way possible from the CONSUMER POV , as I , the consumer cant choose which store to buy my games at , so their **** store with **** features is now the only place I can get some of the games , just because they bought exclusive distribution rights for it , what happens to fair competition ? put the games in all the stores and let me decide which store is the best , he is a visionary no doubt .... a true gamer at heart!!! sold his souls years ago , peddling virtual coins to kids , talk about hitting rock bottom.
With sideloading and alternative AppStores there will be competition, and the %'s will drop automatically.
Being pro-consumer is not anti-Apple. Ever heard of the role of the FTC? Allow me link it for you.
https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc