Nothing prevented Epic from opening their own Appstore on Android. Heck, Amazon runs their own you can load on your Android phone if you want.
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helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
I hate Epic and won’t buy any of their games but I respect that they’ve taken Apple, Google, and Samsung to the cleaners over this shit.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
None of that means Google wasn’t exploiting anticompetitive measures to ensure everyone has to pay their exorbitant 30% tax in their app store. At least, that’s what the State of California determined when Epic took them to court.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m pointing out that what the article is showing (Epic opening their own app store) was always an option for them. The court ruling on Google’s app store didn’t enable that. It was always an option. This isn’t true on the Apple side, though. A non-Apple app store on iOS would be a significant change.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
I know all of that. I’m not sure why you replied to me though.
Zorque@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You mean the same fee every store under the sun charges? Epic is the only one that doesn’t, and they pretty much just do it for marketing.
They are not the good guys. They’re Elon Musk before he took the mask off, though it slips through now and then.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
You mean the same fee every store under the sun charges?
Yes, that one.
They are not the good guys.
Didn’t say they were.
They’re Elon Musk before he took the mask off
Don’t know what mask you speak of. Timmy has never had one.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The state of California also determined that 30% tax was okay for Apple to charge, so they’re not very objective with their determinations.
Rose@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
One was a jury trial and the other wasn’t. Google had plenty of records of their internal communications but Apple had a different practice. This article by The Verge does a decent job at highlighting the differences.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Yeah. I’ve had Amazon’s for a very long time. There was never anything preventing epic from making their own store. Epic was trying to make Google play store host the download for the epic game store.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s a bit more than that, though. Google was colluding with OEMs to stifle competition on Android, and that practice was determined to be anticompetitive. Sure you could always jump through the Google-mandated hoops and install a third-party store, but then you could also always install other browsers on Windows even when Internet Explorer was the default, and that was also determined to be anticompetitive.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Which is silly, since Apple has gone beyond colluding, and simply blocks everything they can within their walled garden. You’ve never even had the option to install other app stores or sideload apps on an iPhone. Meanwhile, you’ve always been able to on Android. For the past several years it will even hold your hand and highlight/show you what options you need to allow to do it within the OS.
trolololol@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yep it’s so true that they did it many years ago. This journo must be on drugs.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
The only good thing came out of Fortnite is the money to fund those lawsuits.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But they didn’t. Let’s look at the facts:
So you have one company that sued two others to be able to launch their store there, one of the companies wasn’t preventing them from doing so, and they lost their lawsuit against the other one. Completely unrelated to that, the EU forced that second company to allow third-party stores. Conclusion, Epic’s lawsuit has nothing to do with this announcement.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Yes, lets.
I’ve already addressed this in other replies below. This goes beyond the existence of app store and into the abusive nature of them. Here’s some light reading for you.
You’re just repeating yourself. Number go up, I guess?
Your parents should have taught you when you were 5 that just because other people are doing it doesn’t make it okay.
Well the EU picked up where the US failed. That’s why they have an app store. But Epic continues the fight regardless. As mentioned elsewhere, they won their lawsuit against Google with the state of California stating Google’s app store is indeed a monopoly. Epic is responsible for both.
Highly doubt that that is a coincidence. It has everything to do with Epic.
You’re repeating yourself again.
Conclusion, you are wrong.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Irrelevant, the news from OP is that secondary stores are now allowed on Android and iOS. Not defending Google or anything, but whatever abuse they did is irrelevant to this point. The fact remains, other stores exist on Android.
No, 2 is a conclusion from 1. You didn’t even got through 1 properly trying to bring whatever bad things Google might do with their power, fact 1 is there are other stores on Android, fact 2, which is a conclusion derived from fact 1 is that Epic could have released their own store there regardless of the lawsuit. This takes Android off the picture from the remaining of the discussion.
That’s not the point, if someone claims that a company is using their monopoly power to force a high tax on developers, but the tax is the same on every other store regardless of being monopoly or not then their argument is bullshit. Why do you think developers pay 30% to Steam? If they thought Steam didn’t provided value they would just not release there. But they do, therefore 30% is not abusive, it’s what developers are willing to pay for the service.
No they didn’t, DMA is an extension of GDPR and P2B Regulations, it has nothing to do with Epic.
Like I told you in your other reply, laws as complex as DMA don’t get written in a short amount of time, it’s impossible for these to be related.
Again, I’m drawing a conclusion from a point before. From 1 you have 2 which means the lawsuit has nothing to do with Android, and from 5 you have 6 which means their lawsuit had nothing to do with iOS either, since those are the two platforms being discussed we have the overall conclusion that the lawsuits and this announcement are unrelated.
You haven’t disproven any of the propositions, nor found any logical error with the conclusion from those propositions (in fact both times you thought the conclusion was just a repetition of the proposition before). Just claiming I’m wrong is not gonna cut it, unless you have any facts that counter anything I said my conclusion stands.