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.
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoNothing prevented Epic from opening their own Appstore on Android. Heck, Amazon runs their own you can load on your Android phone if you want.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
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.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I agree, but that’s what the courts decided. IANAL but I’m assuming it hinges on the pretense that Android is supposed to be an open ecosystem where partners and OEMs are given fair treatment, while iOS is a top-to-bottom “product” controlled by a single company that makes their own business arrangements.
In short, Apple deciding to block Epic from having their own app store, fine. Google bribing/coercing Android OEMs to prioritize the Play Store and not pre-install or facilitate the Epic Store, not fine.
trolololol@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yep it’s so true that they did it many years ago. This journo must be on drugs.
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.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Your comment was:
The article is talking about a new app store. A new app store wasn’t part of “this shit”. Yes, Epic sued and got changes to Google’s app store pricing, but that has nothing to do with this article’s topic. I’m not that invested in this conversation, but you asked why I responded and that’s why. I hope you have a fantastic day!
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
Yes, that one.
Didn’t say they were.
Don’t know what mask you speak of. Timmy has never had one.
Zorque@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So you just repeat his talking points because you believe in him?
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.