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  • Apple kept iMessage off Android to lock users in to iOS

    GabyGaby
    Is this supposed to be news or a shock?! Steve jobs  discussed openly making Apple products ‘sticky’ by creating an integrated ecosystem and through services decades ago. I and I expect many others know this well and take no issue because by and large the approach has more benefits than drawbacks. If people want cross platform messaging they have myriad options such as signal etc. Moreover Apples business decisions are of no concern of Epic. I find this whole situation increasingly laughable the more I learn. They expect Apple to structure and run their business to suit Epic, When all of these developers should actually be kissing their arses for creating such an enormous economy and business opportunity that has benefitted millions. Ultimately at the end of all this though coding is tantamount to speech, and one cannot compel speech so nobody can technically force apple to change their business model or to write code to make it easier for devs such as Sweeney to make even more money from apple customers. Can they? And I still don’t get why there is even an argument to be had because if it were a brick and mortar store then nobody would argue that Apple be forced to allow a supplier to come and set up shop on their property. If you walked into a supermarket and set up a pop up store you’d expect to be thrown in a cell. 
    thtbaconstangJanNLwatto_cobra

  • Arizona Senate declines to vote on App Store payments bill

    GabyGaby
    I have one word for him - Libel...

    jony0watto_cobra

  • Criminal hacking groups piling on to escalating Microsoft Exchange crisis

    GabyGaby
    Microsoft should be held accountable both financially and otherwise for their incompetence and negligence. And I sincerely hope that companies relying on Microsoft etc to secure their systems learn from this mistake. In saying that the U.S gov is as much to blame for their complacency. 
    GeorgeBMacjony0watto_cobra

  • 'Fortnite' developer Epic Games files antitrust complaint against Apple in EU

    GabyGaby
    It’s interesting to try to think about what it would look like if Epic to win this aspect of the suit, and Apple were forced to support third-party app stores. ... Somehow I wonder if Epic could really find themselves even more under Apple's thumb than they were before. It won’t be like in macOS, which seems to be what Sweeney is assuming. That seems like a big, BIG assumption, and possibly a fatal flaw in his thinking. Epic seems to think that Apple would be forced to allow side-loading, while more likely Epic’s store would have to conform to Apple’s requirements for such a store. Sure, they’d prevent Apple from getting a cut of their in-app purchases, but somehow I doubt the judge is going to say that Apple is supposed to provide support for Epic’s store for free!
    You contradict yourself. Either you have to say Apple runs the Epic App Store rules, or Epic does. You can't have it both ways. Yet you said Epic has to conform to all of Apple's chosen requirements for an Epic App Store, then you say that those requirements don't include the 30% service fee. So tell me exactly which of the 500 rules in the Apple App Store Guidelines Epic will have to follow and which ones it won't.

    I appreciate everyone who is trying to come up with a compromise, but none of the compromises I have seen make sense yet.

    My conclusion is that if Apple wins, then all apps sold on iOS remain under the jurisdiction of the Apple App Store Guidelines. But if Epic wins, none of the Apple App Store Guidelines apply to any software that is sold on other app stores. Basically the choice will result in a complete victory for Epic or a complete victory for Apple. Otherwise who decides which rules Apple's and Epic's stores must both adhere to? The government? The courts?

    And if Apple suffers a complete defeat, then I think Apple would be wise to no longer support ANY third party app stores in iOS because it's just not profitable. Just like Walmart shuts down any stores that vote to unionize because Walmart claims that they are no longer profitable. How do you force a company to offer a service that it doesn't want to provide? You can't. When people realize this is the choice, they will beg lawmakers to allow OS providers to build walled gardens and charge people to be in them. But by then Apple may have permanently given up on a third party App Store. The irony is that if Apple completely loses this case and shuts down the third party app store, it gives Apple MORE control over its own software, which is exactly what Epic supporters don't want.
    If that is the case, the best thing apple could do would be to close the App Store in its current format and have a system whereby they offer to pay developers a licensing fee to host and have a commission based model similar to music streaming. That would be the tactic I would take in those circumstances rather than being dictated to by greedy people like Sweeney. 
    watto_cobra

  • 'Fortnite' developer Epic Games files antitrust complaint against Apple in EU

    GabyGaby
    No matter how Epic tries to confuse and obfuscate, to control and maintain the narrative that they are a victim while they take this little sideshow on a worldwide tour, dragging this out in the hope that someone takes the bait and people forget how it all really began. The facts are thus: Epic harmed themselves, and intentionally I might add. They made a hot-fix altering the app’s behaviour without AppStore approval, and against developer guidelines in full knowledge of the consequence. And no matter how they try to spin it or if what they allege has truth in it - and I don’t doubt for a second that Apple has other motivations for some of the things it does, and is motivated by $$ but ultimately though, and some can argue it is reductive, but Apples “retaliation” was for breach of contract. It’s very simple, and legally I don’t see how it can be viewed any other way. So whether any of the other arguments have merit in respect of competition etc, that is for other government agencies to decide but in terms of Epics’ legal proceedings it is irrelevant. 
    watto_cobra