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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by fooey on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:02PM (#22741175)
Maybe this is the start of the Epic Games business model.

Buy things and make them exclusive just so no one else can have them.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by yepthatsreality on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:19PM (#22742055)
E^3 model[0], different parameters.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by madeofpalk on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:39PM (#22742288)
I mean in Epic's case, its really more like movie/tv/book deals, except with much more favourable terms to the creators.
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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by timzentu on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:27PM (#22743926)
You forgot to add with more restrictions, decreased customer satisfaction, upsetting early supporters, and an incomplete storefront that barely has enough online features to state it was built in the last 2 decades.

That is in the case of Epic not the OP.

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Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky by close04 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:43PM (#22742341)
Buying things to bury just to make sure the competition doesn't get them is by no means a new business model or invented by Epic Games. It's been a solid go to for most big companies since forever. It's nothing new for Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.
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