Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing

Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by vbezhenar on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:20AM (#27254190)

> Why not give customers the choice to run other app stores?

Why would Apple want to do so? That would obviously reduce their earnings.

> Imagine if all the software on your laptop must be downloaded from the windows store..

I bet that is Microsoft's dream. They can't just do that because of disruption would be too big. But they did something similar with Windows RT, so they definitely looking into it.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by Hamuko on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:27AM (#27254224)

>They can't just do that because of disruption would be too big.

Microsoft became rather antitrust shy at some point. Not sure if that's the case anymore but I think it affected many of the decisions.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by dan-robertson on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:40AM (#27255290)

They became shy exactly when they lost a massive antitrust suit in the late 90’s.

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