Hah. We were annoyed when EA Origin came out, mostly because of the “2nd icon” thing. But we got over it because it really wasn’t that big a thing and many of us realized that Steam having some real competition was very much a good thing.
I’m not sure anyone ever even complained about uPlay (now Ubisoft Connect). Few…

Because the House can impeach (though not remove) without the Senate...and because the Senate has blocked all of the relief the House already passed and sent to Mitch's desk up to this point. So until after the 20th this is the best they are going to he able to accomplish. 

You should delete your account over this truly horrendous take.

People died, guy... and we’re pretty lucky that it wasn’t significantly more people.

Joe had to stop being Joe to appreciate his life because he only wanted his life back so he could return to not living it. The transformative nature of him being put into a cat doesn’t remove his blackness because the center of the movie is still a black man’s voice and a black face onscreen almost 100% of the film.

I think it’s a good general rule that if the game isn’t multiplayer, there’s no reason to care what anyone else thinks or how they act. If the game interests you, play it. If it doesn’t interest you, don’t play it. How other people act shouldn’t really factor, unless it’s a multiplayer game where interacting with them…

The problem is selective placement of your lens.

Except I’m not arguing for restricting choice for everyone. That’s the fundamental problem with how people are arguing about this. The iPhone is not a market. It is simply one part of a market.

I just don’t consider that a valid complaint, because it’s fundamental to the product.

Fingers crossed.

Im tired of Nintendo being opposite of Sony, Microsoft, and PC. 

Just throwing it out there: they account for about 8% of the sales.

I guess the best I can say is that this could have looked much worse. To be fare, Schultz himself really lost his touch after “The Great Pumpkin” (although I can sit through the Thanksgiving one, too.) Focusing on Snoopy may actually be for the best. I just can’t imagine modern America accepting a return to the spirit…

I mean, it’s an inherently terrible argument. Fortnite isn’t in any way an essential. It’s a luxury.

It’s a specific luxury too. 

Are you really asking why Apple is asking for a fee for reviewing, hosting, and serving an app on their store? People need to be paid for the work they do.

citing its own user engagement data

...so what? You still breached a contract you signed. No amount of bluster will change that. Epic will lose when it comes to Fortnite on Apple devices, though it may or may not inspire further antitrust suits that it may or may not benefit from. Everything beyond that is judicial and public relations theater.

I don’t totally disagree with you. But my problem with Epic’s argument is that it ends up with a vague and arbitrary decision from the courts. Nobody is making the argument that Apple can’t charge something for app sales or transactions that go through its storefront. What Epic is saying that Apple’s current 30% is…

This quote from Apple’s brief says it all: