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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by simondotau on Monday April 24, 2023 @09:32PM (#35695511)
> You've described the counterpoint perfectly

That we should punish success?

Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by adev_ on Monday April 24, 2023 @09:46PM (#35695612)
> That we should punish success?

That is a great bullshit whataboutism argument.

Nobody speaks about punishing success here.

Apple and Google de facto Monopoly on the app store gives them a 30% tax on everything that wants to live on the mobile ecosystem.

This is the problem here. And this is what Epic was fighting against.

Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by simondotau on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:43AM (#35698678)
Epic couldn’t point to any new “abusive” behaviour between when Apple was a ~1% market share minnow to when they became a ~50% market share behemoth. This is critical. Antitrust is the abuse of monopoly power. In order to abuse a monopoly, you need to have abused your monopoly.