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Ryuu96 on 29 November 2022
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gtotheunit91 said:
trunkswd said:

Didn't Epic already try that and fail?

They did, but Elon as an individual is substantially bigger with more resources available than Epic the business entity lol.

Well, in fairness, most of Musk's wealth is tied up in stocks, Tesla/SpaceX are heavily helped by Government subsidies too and honestly, I think Tesla is incredibly overvalued but that's a different conversation entirely. Remember that Epic is largely financially backed by Tencent as well who are massive. Nevertheless, both Musk and Epic are nothing compared to the juggernaut that is Apple, Lol.

The issue is that the court case was already decided, unlikely that anyone will waste the time and effort and will just instead refer to the decision in Epic vs Apple, which Epic lost and caused a double down on Apple's right to charge 30%. It depends on what exactly Musk's complaint will be, if it's that Apple pulled advertising, he'd be laughed out of court, if it is that Apple charges 30%, he'll be slapped down.

As I see it, he needs to be more specific, the side loading of stores is an entirely different issue to Apple charging 30%, it is fully Apple's right to charge 30% and that is the industry standard, is Musk complaining about the 30% or is he complaining that Apple doesn't allow a sideloaded stores? It looks like he's just whining about the 30% cut on iOS.

Microsoft doesn't care about the 30% iOS cut, nor does EC, what they want to investigate is if it's in Apple's right to block sideloaded stores entirely which circumvent the 30% cut, like, I'm 99% sure that Microsoft would remain on iOS with the 30% cut even if it was eventually ruled to allow sideloaded stores on iOS which circumvent the cut.

Microsoft only passively sided with Epic but didn't get too involved in the court case, Microsoft is (probably) smarter than to take Apple on directly, they'll likely just let things play out whilst waiting for the EC to eventually investigate Apple/Google and then bring the receipts, they'll let a regulatory body break things open rather than attempt it themselves.