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Re:Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then d... by scarface74 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:44PM (#27089699)
If they could get a special deal, do you really think they would take the case to trial, spend the money and have as much of their dirty laundry become part of the record?
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Re:Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then d... by stephc_int13 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:52PM (#27089745)
I don't read in tea leaves, we can only infer their goals from the PR and what seems to be their best self-interest.

Internally this is probably a high-risk high-reward kind of plan, but this is a wild guess.

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Re:Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then d... by dylan604 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @03:51PM (#27090128)
I was actually surprised the went this alone instead of trying to get other devs involved to seek class action status.
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Re:Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then d... by lupire on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:07PM (#27090699)
They want a policy change, not a $40 coupon.
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Re:Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then d... by scarface74 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:57PM (#27089781)
If they had gotten all of the concessions they wanted, there would have been no reward.

If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this?

The PR doesn’t tell the story like what came out during court procedures.

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Re:Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then d... by johnnyanmac on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:56PM (#27147995)
>If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this?

the ability to potential lauch EGS on IOS. Success or not, they want that opportunity to try.

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Re:Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then d... by gpm on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:18PM (#27091289)
If they could get a special deal, they probably wouldn't have standing to take the case to trial, so they literally couldn't take it to trial.

I suspect they would still want to. My personal suspicion about the motivation behind this case is that it's not really about Epic Game's profit, but Tencent's. Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games, and owns a lot of companies who stand to make a lot more money if Apple's forced to open up the app store.

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