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Seems like they were prepared to do this all along
by merrvk 6y ago
Seems like they were prepared to do this all along
- detaro 6y agotheir management and lawyers would have been pretty bad at their jobs if they didn't see the possibility of this happening and prepped for it.
- goldfishlover 6y agoThis is tencent's move to counter the tiktok drama
- AaronFriel 6y agoIs Tencent a majority share holder in Epic Games?
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoThey are not. In fact I believe Tim Sweeny personally has the controlling stake.
- aquaticsunset 6y agoNope
- jandrese 6y agoOf course they were. They knew exactly what Apple would do because Apple has never been shy about telling developers what will happen when they do stuff like this.
- merrvk 6y agoCould they have been baiting it out of Apple on purpose?
- valuearb 6y agoYes they brilliantly baited Apple into crushing Epic in court.
- Osiris 6y agoOn what evidence to you base your belief that Apple is guaranteed to win this case? Yes, they have more financial resources, and they have a lot more to lose if they lose so they definitely fight as hard as they can. That doesn't mean they aren't breaking the law and that Epic can't prove it. It'll just be very expensive to do so.
- valuearb 6y agoThey aren’t breaking the law in any way.
- kps 6y agoThat's the position of one of the two parties in the case. The other party says they are.
- eckesicle 6y agoI guess that's that then. I'll let Epic Games know, so that they can drop the suit and save themselves some vbucks.
- lhnz 6y agoApple currently has at least two antitrust investigations underway, and this seems to add fuel to that fire. Whether or not they are breaking the law, they are about to have every single aspect of their market behaviour put under the microscope. They don't need to break a law to be found to be operating anti-competitively.
- valuearb 6y agoThey don’t have to break a law to be found guilty? How Kafkaesque.
- akmarinov 6y agoThey knew this will cost them millions until Fortnite is back on the store and they still did it.
- iandanforth 6y ago"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
- colinmhayes 6y agoThe only reason they created this feature is to force apple to take their app down. Now they can point to the millions in damages caused by the apps removal. Their long term goal has to be creating a competing app store since they aren't seeking damages.