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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by illiarian on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @01:48AM (#35696932)
People are also forgetting it was better than the status quo at the time (IIRC 70% cut to telecom companies)
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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by heavyset_go on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:33AM (#35697572)
You could run whatever apps you wanted on phones.
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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by pjmlp on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @02:53AM (#35710310)
Nope, on J2ME and Symbian phones, unless you had a developer kit, you would run what the telecom provider made available on their stores, reachable via WAP or SMS download links.
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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by seventhtiger on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:09AM (#35698123)
No it was just continuing the status quo. Apple explicitly said they used Valve's Steam as a reference for monetizing a digital app store.
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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by illiarian on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:19AM (#35698175)
As far as mobile app stores went Valve's model wasn't the status quo. However, Valve showed that what they were doing was working.
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