The Epic question: how Google lost when Apple won
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The Epic question: How Google lost when Apple won | How is Google running an illegal monopoly with the Play store — while Apple’s App Store is in the clear?::How is Google running an illegal monopoly with the Play store — while Apple’s App Store is in the clear?

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    612·
    10 months ago

    At the end of the day, this was kind of a different legal battle. Google negotiated one-off deals with big tech companies, and some of those companies are getting better deals than their competitors.

    Apple doesn’t appear to do that. The marketplace has one set of rules that apply to everyone. Spotify doesn’t have different a AppStore contract than Tidal.

    For all we know, Google may have won this case if they simply made everyone abide by the same contract. Playing king maker kind of fucked them.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      333·
      10 months ago

      This is the answer.

      Apple wasn’t abusing their monopoly, while “Don’t Be Evil” Google was colluding to protect theirs.

      • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        171·
        10 months ago

        A monopoly is inherently abusive. It abuses centralized power to gain more power. But I would argue that Apple built their monopoly “honestly” from the ground up, and from day one the rules haven’t changed. Google started with an open platform, and sneakily changed the rules and made deals to get their monopoly.

        Both are objectively bad. But Google’s method was more open to legal scrutiny, in hindsight.

      • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
        101·
        10 months ago

        The fact that one kind of monopoly isn’t abuse on technical grounds (but still is abuse is in many other ways) but another monopoly is abuse is exactly the problem being highlighted. Why are we just sweeping this problem under the rug of public opinion?

    • brianorca@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      It could also be how the Apple trial was just in front of the judge, but the Google trial went to a jury. Could Epic have had a different result if they requested a jury trial the first time?

  • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    As much as I don’t like epic mega games as a game company I don’t think a company should get a cut of every purchase made in an app on their platform. Sure if you want to use googles or apples payment gateway, but you shouldn’t have too.

  • GlitterInfection@lemmy.worldEnglish
    529·
    10 months ago

    The legal system is hilariously broken across the board. I’m on both Apple and Google’s sides in this fight against Epic making a buck off their ecosystems at the expense of the consumer.

    • TugOfWarCrimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      141·
      10 months ago

      All three corporations involved are scumbags trying to game the broken legal system to profit at the expense of the consumer. None of them deserve your support. You should be able to buy what you want and emjoy, in a manner that’s convenient for you, at a reasonable price, without having to navigate a labyrinth of corporate deals and user agreements.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      111·
      10 months ago

      Yeah! And the only place to buy any software on Windows should be the Microsoft store and on OSX it should be through iTunes! And Linux distros should each have their individual store! Fuck competition!

      Completely fucking ridiculous.