Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge

Re:Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was ... by edgyquant on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:46PM (#24634734)

Everyone knows judges and lawyers are widely respected among fisherman for their deep and nuanced understanding of bodies of water and the organisms that reside within them.

This argument is a fallacy as they all have assistants and do research before making their case/ruling. Replace tech and fishing with any activity you like and the fallacy remains and remains obvious as that.

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Re:Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was ... by mthoms on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:22PM (#24635138)

If you think "a judge said [X] about tech issue [Y] so you should just take their word for it" is a valid way of arguing a point on HN, I don't know what to tell you :-)

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Re:Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was ... by edgyquant on Monday October 05, 2020 @05:30PM (#24692271)

That isn’t what I was arguing I’m arguing that it’s the job of judges and lawyers to be as informed as necessary and that they do their due diligence for each case. To pretend modern tech is an example of the one field where the people in charge of creating precedent can’t do that job is a fallacy.

Never did I say take their word for.

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Re:Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was ... by scarface74 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:33PM (#24635177)

So if you don’t trust the court’s competence to decide legal matters around tech, why would you trust legislatures to pass laws? Are legislators smarter when it comes to tech?

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