| Captain_Yuri said: If yall have an hour to kill and are interested is the Apple vs Epic case, I'd recommend watching this video as he gives you a good summary based on the past 2 days of the court case. What it comes down to is this: Apple says their 30% is the industry standard and gives examples of consoles. They say that if Epic wins, it will have Industry wide ramifications and consoles will be forced to lower their 30% as well. Apple also says that it doesn't make any sense for Epic to target them instead of say Sony because Apple takes less money from them compared to Sony who takes 30% + additional money for crossplay while Apple only takes 30%. Judge also fears that this will affect the entire Tech sector. Epic Argues that this will only affect iPhones because iPhones aren't subsidized therefore Apple doesn't need 30% similar to PCs where as consoles are heavily subsidized and therefore makes almost no money and requires 30% to make money. Also that iPhones are general purpose devices like Android and PCs which allows side loading of apps where as consoles are specialized devices. There's more but those seem to be the big points so far. |
It absolutely should have major ramifications on the console side if they win. Epic is arguing in favour of Sony and the rest, because it knows that if they won the case, that would put them at odds with MS and especially Sony, since not only would it also Activision to slap their store onto the consoles, but at the same time, it'll pave the way for MS to inject Xcloud on it's two competitor systems, allowing them to eat away at both userbases from the inside, and adding to MS's Xbox ecosystem (Like the EEE strat, but using an ecosystem instead of buying out).
Timmy really doesn't understand just how big of a deal this really is. He thinks he's going to just gut Apple, but he's going to end up gutting everyone and pissing them all off. There are already publishers not being happy with their laundry being aired out for all to see, especially the money deals that were made before and soon to be made. Nintendo was smart to redact theirs ahead of this case.
Still, I firmly believe (and could give less of a fuck what any company says) that company dealings like this should be viewed by the public, because if you're going to be secretive and are known to be scummy, you deserve to have your secrets revealed.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
