Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint

Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by simion314 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:37PM (#26170540)

This is frankly a stupid comparison, I did not ask that Apple put my game, music or books in their store and promote it. I ask that the device can be used without limitations. There were laws that forbid radio devices to be "locked" and there were also laws for phones to also not allow locking them to a specific carrier (the exception was that if you were getting the phone with a discount with a 2 year contract after the 2 years you had the right to unlock your phone for free).

I would appreciate if you try a bit more to make the distinction between Apple Store market and just he hardware(the laptop or phone).

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by dkonofalski on Thursday February 18, 2021 @02:25PM (#26184291)

You're the one muddying the waters, here. You keep comparing device restrictions between iPhones and radios when they're completely different. One accesses a public good and the other a private platform.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by simion314 on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:52AM (#26190445)

Let me give you a different examples, bank ATM machines, guess what it is a private object, connected to a private bank, on private property and still that laws (in EU) forced this banks to make the ATMs interoperable and to stop the giant extra taxes when you used a card from bank A on an ATM from bank B.

So probably in your view this is evil, the people forced a private entity to not be a jerk and apply a big tax. Evil or not this is possible, a law can be made to limit the Google/Apple tax and the same law can be made to force side loading or block loot-boxes.

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