Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google

Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by jpambrun on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:10AM (#24442358)

That's a really simple view of the issue. You can't reasonably think even a large corporation such as Epic can achieve that. That is what makes Apple/Google a duopoly in the mobile computing space. At this point, without any state intervention, they can abuse their position of power to bully devs and consumer.

I don't care that they had to "work hard" to get there or whatever; the fact is they now have too much power.

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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by DivisionSol on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:28AM (#24442539)

Apple & Google both did it, and are doing nothing to stop others from entering the (phone) market.

Just because a market is hard or expensive to get into doesn't mean it's not a market worth entering. The real crux is Epic doesn't actually want an open phone platform, they just want to be software rent-slurping middlemen for an arbitrary 'cut' of a pie.

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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by jpambrun on Friday September 11, 2020 @12:47PM (#24444610)

You're argument rely on the assumption that entering the smartphone market now is as easy as it was when Google and Apple did it, which is ludicrous.

Edit: even if it was as "easy". It's not like there are dozens of companies the size of Google and Apple that could pull it off.

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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by nickflood on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:41AM (#24443338)

Doing nothing is unfortunately a complete opposite of what they are doing.

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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by yladiz on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:01AM (#24443563)

How are they stopping other companies from entering (as in, with their own OS and/or hardware) the mobile phone market?

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