Re:It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly
by zepto on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:45PM
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> Epic' is not a 'middleman'
Completely false. Epic proposes to run their own App Store. They are a middleman. You would know this if you had been following their cases.
The Google play analogy is absurd for obvious reasons. By that logic, anyone who would be interested in opening a store on iOS would already be running one on Android, which is clearly not the case.
If Apple is charging too much, the solution is for competitors to build their own platform. They can easily afford to do so, and that would create jobs, innovation, consumer choice, and pricing pressure.
Forcing Apple to provide a platform for them is the opposite of market dynamics.
Epic and others are trying to avoid making real investments in the future because lawsuits and lobbying are cheaper than building platforms.
Completely false. Epic proposes to run their own App Store. They are a middleman. You would know this if you had been following their cases.
The Google play analogy is absurd for obvious reasons. By that logic, anyone who would be interested in opening a store on iOS would already be running one on Android, which is clearly not the case.
If Apple is charging too much, the solution is for competitors to build their own platform. They can easily afford to do so, and that would create jobs, innovation, consumer choice, and pricing pressure.
Forcing Apple to provide a platform for them is the opposite of market dynamics.
Epic and others are trying to avoid making real investments in the future because lawsuits and lobbying are cheaper than building platforms.