I like Kamala as a character, but she has serious Mary Sue vibes in Marvel’s Avengers. She’s a teenager that basically kicks off the whole storyline and somehow manages to do in what feels like a few days what the Avengers, SHIELD, and the Inhumans haven’t been able to do in five years. Black Widow even references…

So, Epic’s original case is that Apples monopoly is unfair, and the agreement they signed shouldn’t be enforceable on anti-competitive grounds right?

God I hope Epic crashes and burns here. A company that caters to 10 year olds does not need to make their game into a “metaverse” or be creating its own ecosystem. Fortnite does not need to be a social space. Unreal engine is one thing, but fortnite could die today and realistically no one would care except for some…

lol

Honestly, this type of intellectually dishonest bullshit pisses me off as a lawyer (even if I am a totally different kind of lawyer). Every single person involved, not to mention all observers, know exactly what’s going on - Apple has semi-dictatorial control over its platform, Epic wanted more money and to be able to…

Entrenched communities tend to be inaccessible to new members. To put it in most kind and generous terms. To put it less kindly: fandoms are looney tunes and it’s offputting to anyone not drinking the Kool-Aid.

They must’ve calculated that that’s worth more to them than i0S revenue.

Ugh. I just went from “not really caring because Fortnite is dumb, but thinking it’d be interesting if Epic won against Apple” to “hoping Epic suffocates from having its head so far up its own ass.”

Yeah, that’s how I’ve been reading it.

So in other words, Apple is bad, help us so we can become just like Apple.

It feels more like posturing than reasoning - if not flat out marketing.

Tim Sweeney must have fucking brain worms, because this is the most intensely stupid argument I have ever seen. If you want to get your bullshit marketing platform (masquerading as a video game) onto mobile devices, follow the fucking rules or build your own damn phones. No one is going to provide a platform for you…

“Epic wants to utilize its own competing services, for its own apps and for others.”

But it’s 2020 now. Steam was the first big one so when they added that stuff it was an evolution. What others need to do is just implement it. They don’t need to take years to evolve to the same point. I bough Spore creature creator from the EA store back in the days and that store just ended up disappearing and got…

When Sony or Microsoft have exclusivity it’s usually because they paid for the development. It might have taken Valve 17 years to get Steam to where it is now but why doesn’t Epic even implement a cart feature? If they can’t even do that then good luck getting any help from them if you have a game that doesn’t work…

No, it would be akin to Walmart allowing a print shop to set up inside their stores, on the condition that they share 30% of their revenue from those in-store sales, and then the print shop setting up a separate PoS to hide all those sales from Walmart.

It’s not pointing out the request for special treatment. It’s pointing that they asked for terms of use to be changed, got denied and then broke the terms anyway. Why does Epic even want to do all this? It’s not at all about breaking control. It’s 100% entirely so that they get a bigger share of the fake money sales.…

Not only that, but it actually does not violate any laws (at least in the US) for a monopoly to simply exist. It only becomes an antitrust case if someone uses a monopoly to engage in anti-competitive practices. Epic might stand a better chance if they argue that, together, Apple and Google have a duopoly on apps, but…

I don’t think it hurts their case. Their terms are there and they want to keep them. There is nothing wrong about that and every platform has it. What it does show is that Epic basically wanted to keep their stuff on iOS but didn’t want to pay Apple, were told no, did it anyway and are now crying about the…

Asking for special treatment for yourself and also hoping Apple would extend it to others is not the same as not asking for special treatment.