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foregoneconclusion said:

I'm not sure this ruling will hold up under appeal. If the App Store isn't really a monopoly, why would Apple be disallowed from anti-steering clauses that are standard practice for web retailers and online sellers? 

Are you an antitrust attorney with many years of experience handling these types of appeals?  Did you personally review all of the evidence admitted at trial?

If not, then you have no clue what you are talking about. 

roake said:

I think it would be reasonable if Apple completely exited the South Korean (home of Samsung) market.  Otherwise, other markets will follow suit as a money grab; it will be far cheaper for Apple to pay the fine than to give away their income on apps.  That’s free money for that market that Apple has to pay to keep doing business.

No that's not "reasonable" at all.  Apple is not prohibited from charging for the services it provides developers, and it can certainly monetize the App Store in other ways that comply with local laws. 

fastasleep said:

B-Mc-C said:

They’re using Apple’s intellectual property (thousands of APIs) to build their app. These are not open source to my knowledge and are likely licensed to them under Apple’s terms. Apple spends a boatload of money developing all of these “building blocks.” If they decide they don’t want someone using their licensed software, especially someone who is not paying for it, then so be it. Just my opinion.

RudeBoyRudy said:

Apple should just revoke their developer license permanently and move on. Apple's property, Apple's choice. Let Epic go on to enjoy 100% commitment to Android.

At which point Epic can decide to pull iOS support from Unreal Engine, cutting out a massive segment of the iOS/iPadOS gaming market, or worse, kill Unreal Engine for macOS and destroy a large segment of the 3D market. Nobody wants that, but just saying at some point this war needs to end and its in everyone's — even outside of Apple and Epic — that it doesn't result in those kinds of casualties.

Yeah that would make zero sense since Epic would lose even more revenue, and only piss off their own customers. 

Good thing you're not actually running a company and making big boy decisions that affect employees, customers, and shareholders.

rinosaur said:

I’m afraid this low performance boost might really reduce the Android iPhone performance gap. 

Yeah because most people buy phones based on the Manhattan 3.1 GPU benchmark.

GMAFB

bluefire1 said:

I’ve read that the new watch sizes will be incompatible with current watch bands. That’s going to piss off a lot of Apple Watch owners if true.

Absolue nonsense.  The new watch will use the exact same case width as the old models, and even if it didn't, there's no technical or other logical reason to change the width of the band.  Even if the width of the band changed, there's no reason to change the attachment mechanism.

You can file that stupid rumor in the garbage bin along with 90% of the crap that is passed off as "news."