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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by onion2k on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:41AM (#24442093)
There's clearly a difference between a company having exclusive control over how people access a particular game on a particular platform (eg Fortnite on Windows) and a company having control over how people access all software on a platform (eg everything on iOS and Apple).
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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by parasubvert on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:50AM (#24442181)
I don’t think there’s that much of a difference, unless you want to legally classify a platform differently. Today no such legal classification exists.
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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by belltaco on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:44AM (#24443991)
How is there no difference between just installing a launcher vs throwing out your entire phone and apps?
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