U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store class-action lawsuit

Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ... by ocdtrekkie on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:00PM (#17340759)

It's hard to even characterize the level of impact a case like this could have. For years, the tech industry has understood that the key to success is to control the platform, and then get other developers building on and generating income for your platform. Imagine the sheer number of businesses that may have their business model blown apart by this.

If a company is ruled against on having their own app store on their own OS on their own devices, when they aren't even a monopoly-level player in the larger market, this will blow apart nearly any app store model out there.

I'll, uh, get my popcorn ready.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ... by simion314 on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:37PM (#17341042)

> this will blow apart nearly any app store model out there. But on OSX you have an app store and you can side load applications, so you can have them both.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ... by ocdtrekkie on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:03PM (#17341237)

OS X and Windows will probably be okay because the "default" is to install outside the store. It's not really considered "sideloading". But most other platforms with single-source app stores will be in trouble.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ... by simion314 on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:05AM (#17344162)

Why the default is important in this case, if the device owner can enable side loading in an easy way then I am okay with a secure default. Hopefully some progress is made and OSX and Windows remain unlocked even if MS and Apple are slowly pushing in the other direction.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ... by hungerstrike on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:16PM (#17340893)

Apple is a monopoly level player in the United States because they have close to 50% of the market with their smart phone operating system at ~45% - https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

You don’t need a strict majority market share to be considered a monopoly in our legal system.

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