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You mean, the undecided center?

No, it didn’t, it played off the idea of a store inside a government. If you can’t refute the points brought up, you should just give up the discussion entirely.

The point is that you can’t accept extensions of your analogy when they start including information detrimental to your argument. There are good reasons for walled gardens, and unless you acknowledge all the facts, your points fall flat.

And I used your metaphor against you. That’s called “discourse.” Apple’s selling point for their phone has always been that it’s a closed, secure, safe system, and that’s all it’s ever needed. The developer can then have a captive market to sell their app to, as long as they meet those requirements set by Apple. The…

Sure, go for it. Just don’t be surprised when consoles start becoming a super-expensive luxury item again, since the walled gardens you want to break up subsidize their development and manufacture.

You forgot the part where Epic’s shop would be free to: dodge the Appleville taxes (cut for maintaining OS/device); evade the Appleville customs and enforcement (app verification for malware/viruses/quality); ignore the Appleville police (lack of accountability to Apple); freely surveil the Appleville citizens without…

Ultima and Wing Commander were contemporaries! I had a CD that came with a CD-ROM drive from early on that had Ultima VI and Wing Commander III on the same disc. Good times!

Alternately, you can get a three dollar Viz subscription and read the entire series.

Alternately, you can get a three dollar Viz subscription and read the entire series.

No, their goal is to open a competing store, which they stated in their lawsuit. The same statement made in the Google Play lawsuit, incidentally, where it doesn’t really fit, but that’s their lawyers being lazy, I guess. Their claim is that they aren’t allowed to open that competing store. Given the level of quality…

A 30% cut is the industry standard across all store platforms. It “seems high” because you don’t have any context for that. Apple has done nothing to enforce that cut in other stores, or force people to use their ecosystem, they only provided a competing product that performs well.

It’s already happening, their revenue already dropped by 25%. There MAY be a connection there.

Did you have a look at the “Epic Payment” option? Did you notice how it completely prevented Apple from ever getting paid for having Fortnite on their store (Fortnite being free), while at the same time meant an even larger chunk of money to Epic (players didn’t see a 30% discount on their vBucks)? They lowered the…

Then buy Android devices. Samsung makes some quite high-end phones and tablets, from what I hear.

Don’t forget that their stated end-goal is to literally keep every red cent their game produces, without ever compensating anybody else.

Do you know they made a deal, instead of adhering to the same pay cuts other games make?

Remember when Nintendo and Sega had a stranglehold over the console market? And that upstart Sony made a console? Or when Nintendo and Sony had a stranglehold, and Microsoft made a competitor? Do you know why Sony and Microsoft didn’t bother suing first? It’s because they recognized that the only thing keeping them…

You mean, like taking whitewater textures, and making them clear water?

Not only is it a kit you can buy, the process of building it requires that you take a dremel to an existing Wii motherboard. It uses the actual hardware, by cutting out the parts of the hardware it wants to use, and soldering contacts directly to the remains. I don’t know about you, but I’m not that brave.

I mean, the Rising Sun was removed from the banner, but the text was already on there, just not very legible.