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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:51PM (#24310442)
How do you reconcile this opinion with the glaringly obvious counter that Apple swings its weight around in exactly that fashion?
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by xwdv on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:56PM (#24310515)
A company should have the right to enforce the terms for its own platform.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by gambiting on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:59PM (#24310569)
No, I think what they mean is that for instance, Apple Music is on Android, but Apple takes payments through its own platform, not through Google Play, therefore denying Google their 30% cut on apple music payments. Many smaller companies are not able to negotiate the same thing.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:05PM (#24310648)
Massive off-topic aside: Would you mind stop referring to me as he, and more generally don't assume someones gender identity. Sorry about it, just shitting me off a bit lately.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by gambiting on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:15PM (#24310791)
Huge apologies, I normally just use "they" when I don't know the gender, honestly no idea why I didn't do that here. Sorry about that.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by xwdv on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:01PM (#24310599)
Oh I didn’t know. I guess supporting Epic means that kind of behavior will just continue if they win...
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by icebraining on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:09PM (#24310723)
That's very unlikely, because the court can't force Apple to provide a special deal to Epic. Whatever decision they arrive at, it must be generally applicable.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by yyyk on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:00PM (#24310591)
Not if they're anti-competitive, like selectively using private APIs or forcing developers to use unrelated services (i.e. Apple payment processors).