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Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ... by favorited on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:56PM (#17341182)
> lest we forget, didn't exist before Apple's false "but it's all for the consumer's good" marketing blitzkrieg

Absolutely false. The video game industry has been doing this for 35 years, in every console since at least the NES.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ... by mankash666 on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:09PM (#17341282)
In that case, they need to be brought to court too!
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store ... by favorited on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:17PM (#17341345)
They have been[0], but that's not the point. Your claim that no industry or company had done this before Apple's "marketing blitzkrieg" is incorrect, and has in fact been standard practice in certain industries for decades.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_...

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