RolStoppable said:
Teeqoz said:
I'm gonna have to repeat myself alot of times, but here goes: Epic knows they are breaching Apples ToS. They also did this knowing this would happen, and were prepared to go to court. They will obviously not argue that they are not breaching Apples ToS - they will argue that Apples ToS are illegal. They are also obviously aware of the EU's anti-trust investigation into Apple's practices, and they will certainly help as much as they can with info, but that case is the EU vs Apple, not EU + other companies vs Apple.
To be clear, I don't know where this lawsuit will go, but it's not as simple as "Epic breached Apple's ToS, they are legally in the wrong".
Of course it's about money. You of all people should know and shouldn't really care. It IS about money for Epic, but if Apple was forced to allow competing storefronts on iOS, it would still be good for consumers
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Doesn't look like a coherent strategy to go for "Apple's ToS is illegal" when Epic treated Google the exact same way despite Android allowing competing storefronts to exist.
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One of the largest antitrust cases of the 21st century, which nearly saw Microsoft split into two separate companies centered around Microsoft making it too difficult and cumbersome to download and/or use another internet browser. Abusing the power of defaults can certainly be grounds for a lawsuit, even if users aren't actually forced to use that default. Of course, Google has a better argument than Apple in that other options at least exist, but that doesn't absolve them from anti-competetive behaviour.
