Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by nerdix on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:49PM (#38608240)

But they are the ones that allowed those companies to compete in the first place. And I'm not saying that they should have won. Both Apple and Google losing would have been the best outcome. However, Google losing and Apple winning is the worst. Because its makes open platforms even less attractive to businesses.

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Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by LordKeren on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:59PM (#38608329)

Unfortunately, apple’s position as both phone manufacturer, iOS manufacturer, and App Store maintainer resulted in them being able to successfully argue that their control over the App Store was a feature that was expected by users and was needed to maintain a smooth and secure operating ecosystem

Google, on the other hand, just got pilloried because they are not the phone manufacturer (for the most post), but instead were using their position as the producers of android to pressure phone manufacturers and companies to not compete. Their own internal docs showed the extreme lengths they were willing to go to stop companies from producing third party apps stores. It was this stifling of completion that just got them reamed by the court

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Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by hackernewds on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:22PM (#38608492)

if you zoom out you find that Google got published for allowing other manufacturers into their Android system while Apple benefited from keeping ios closed to themselves. how does this serve the consumers ultimately

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Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by LordKeren on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:33PM (#38608579)

Google got punished for paying off companies to not compete with the Google Play Store.

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Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by ApolloFortyNine on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:19PM (#38609417)

You are in this hyper dense loop of just repeating the same thing, which is adding 0 here.

It's quite literally impossible for apple to be do the same, because they've banned installing apps at all on their platform. Clearly the right move for Google would have been to do the same 15 years ago and saved themselves the headache.

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Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by scarface_74 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:53AM (#38614773)

Yes because we see how well that Google has been at selling hardware

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Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by scarface_74 on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:46PM (#38608697)

Well seeing that consumers in the US prefer iOS to Android and pay more than twice as much for the privilege, may they care about different things than side loading?

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