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Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by vivaldidev on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:28PM (#33665122)
This is interesting stuff to ponder. If Activision-Blizzard ends up being owned by Microsoft, then Microsoft will have significant leverage when it comes to launching their own mobile app store. They'll just pull all their content on Android and lock it behind their own platform. And users will migrate if it means that's the only way to access IP like COD mobile, Diablo mobile, Candy Crush, etc.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/19/23411972/microsoft-xbox-...

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Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by izacus on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:21PM (#33665617)
This is what Disney did to streaming media - bought out Marvel, locked all their content behind their own streaming service and locked in the choice of the service and content together into a single consolidated entity.

People now scream at Netflix for not having this content anymore and happily pay Disney for it.

Isn't market competition great?

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Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by autotune on Friday November 18, 2022 @11:20PM (#33666893)
You can probably watch any interesting content you find on Disney+ on a Saturday before having to wait a while for anything new. The catalog is not that much, but it is high quality, and I don't have a tv show about a soda company promotion on my front page like I do with the supposedly ad free version of the Netflix plan.
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Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by Spivak on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:01AM (#33670101)
Without compulsory licensing for copyrighted works there will never be competition. And that’s by design.
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