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Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by scarface74 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:06AM (#32910568)
Well, we just had a real judge with a real law degree that said the App Store is not a monopoly in the Epic vs Apple case.
Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by ReptileMan on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:01AM (#32911055)
Good to know. It's good that judges are never wrong.
Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by scarface74 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:20AM (#32911276)
Do you have relevant case law that you can cite that the well paid Epic lawyers missed that would have been more convincing?
Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by ReptileMan on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @10:15AM (#32911929)
Microsoft EU antitrust case.
Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by scarface74 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:09AM (#32912754)
luckily we have real lawyers that don’t just pull up irrelevant cases. The case in both the US and the EU was about MS forcing OEMs to psy for a license on all shipping computers whether or not the computer shipped with Windows.

Apple doesn’t license its operating system to other OEMs, it doesn’t have anywhere near 90% market share and EU case law is irrelevant in the US.

> In 1993, the American software company Novell claimed that Microsoft was blocking its competitors out of the market through anti-competitive practices. The complaint centered on the license practices at the time which required royalties from each computer sold by a supplier of Microsoft's operating system, whether or not the unit actually contained the Windows operating system.

Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by ReptileMan on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @12:58PM (#32914573)
Luckily seems you have forgotten about the Internet Exporer
Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by scarface74 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:18PM (#32914846)
And absolutely nothing changed about IE in the US - no browser choice, no forced unbundling, nothing.