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Epic vs. Apple takes new turn as 34 US states & DOJ side with 'Fortnite' maker
DAalseth said:Marvin said:DAalseth said:Apple has a choice. They can either keep fighting this battle to the bitter end and, if what has happened over the last year is any indication, get something really bad imposed on them. Or they can accept where this is going, get out ahead and control the result. The world has changed. Attitudes have changed. Apple needs to change too or they will have something bad for them and their customers forced upon them.
It’s far better to control the landing than to fight to stay aloft and end up stalling and crashing.
The original argument was about Fortnite being accessible on iOS without Apple's control, it can be accessed via the cloud, this was always an option via a browser and here it is currently running on iOS:
Apple doesn't set the prices for in-app purchases. No developers have been monetarily harmed by Apple. Here's the letter they are presenting:
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/States-amicus-brief-for-Epic-v-Apple-appeal.pdf
They talk about the ruling undermining antitrust law but they aren't being honest about what their motives are. For a lot of these politicians, this is about Parler being removed from the store, getting retribution for it and laying groundwork for it not happening again and for some it will be Apple not allowing backdoors on iPhones. They want the ability to install backdoors on iPhones without Apple's permission. There was an article today about this:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/28/fbi-considered-using-pegasus-spyware-for-us-domestic-surveillance
The proposed legislation has been specifically targeted at companies with over 50m US store users to deliberately target it at Apple and Google. If it ever moves ahead, Apple can easily block access to the store in the 34 states that pushed for this to get the number to stay below 50m. If it moves ahead and they choose to go the route of allowing 3rd party stores instead, they can just create an entirely closed off sandbox for each store possibly running a separate copy of the OS in a VM so that malware is isolated from the boot capability of the device.
Apple has plenty of options to go for but before this is even worth considering, the complainants have to prove what they are arguing about - that Apple is stifling competition and harming developers and users. They haven't demonstrated this at all. The fact Fortnite is currently capable of running on iOS without Apple doing anything discredits the entire argument.Hopefully the world returns to sanity before that happens.If the walls of the walled garden are torn down the garden will be attacked by the rodents waiting outside for a free lunch.The biggest loser will be Apple's customers. -
Epic vs. Apple takes new turn as 34 US states & DOJ side with 'Fortnite' maker
crowley said:22july2013 said:cropr said:retrogusto said:I feel like there are infinite analogies that show why this whole Epic thing is ridiculous. Here’s one:
The best nightclub in town charges a cover at the door, and the entertainment and overall experience they provide is the best anywhere. They provide complimentary water and soft drinks, included in the price of admission, and sell alcoholic drinks at industry-standard prices. I own a champagne producer, and I determine that customers would buy more of my champagne if the price were lower, but rather than lower my own wholesale price to the club, I try to legally force the club to reduce their markup, arguing that once a customer pays the cover, the club has a monopoly on all products sold there.
As long as the Apple App Store is the only distribution point of iOS apps, your analogy is incorrect. Keeping the analogy, this would mean that the night club owner does not allow the champagne producer to sell to other night clubs.
I guess you are one of those people who thinks that Apple has an obligation to let anyone sell anything on iOS for free. How is Apple supposed to recoup its expenses for things like CloudKit services that are included in everyone's apps? Or do you think Apple is not allowed to charge for its services? How would you propose Apple get paid for its services?
That's the answer to the first question, the second question is straw man junk, and the third is the same as the first. Try to ask one question at a time and keep it sensible if you want respectful responses.Asking Apple to build and maintain a free secure store for developers to sell their products is not fair to Apple. And, it would be unfair to Apple's customers because Apple would have no incentive to maintain or enhance it -- so customers would get less than optimal experience.Switching to fixed fee, upfront charges could/would set up a roadblock for small & first time developers (the kind Apple has always supported and encouraged) by charging them upfront regardless of whether their app sells or not. Charging as a percent of sales enables small and first time developers to get started with low up front costs and then only charge them when they receive revenue dollars from their app.I think this is a situation where any new "fix" merely spawns other problems elsewhere in the chain -- and that any "fix" would be a balancing act between "good & bad, winners & losers. That is, it's just a matter of picking the best option because there are no perfect options for everybody. -
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blastdoor said:larryjw said:When they tell you we’re the good guys, remember.
there are no good guys.No, he was right. While nobody is perfect some are better than others -- and work hard at it. But none of them are perfect and make mistakes -- and the best will freely admit that. (But watch out for the ones who don't!)But, even then, "good" is in the eye of the beholder. Hitler truly thought he was doing good by ridding the world of what he thought were defectives polluting the human race. Most people today would call that evil. While here, some think that Martin Luther King did great harm to their nation.It is in fact, the core strength of democracy: A dictator can take off in whichever direction he wants (like Hitler did) while, in a democracy, others are able to stand in his way and stop or at least slow him down. It doesn't always work perfectly but over time it tends to head in the direction of "good".