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> Unless I’ve missed something, there’s no indication raising a stink helped in this case Of course, there's no way to know. But do you 100% honestly believe r
by dj_mc_merlin 6y ago
> Unless I’ve missed something, there’s no indication raising a stink helped in this case
Of course, there's no way to know. But do you 100% honestly believe reaching the frontpage of HN yesterday had nothing to do with the appeal being accepted today?
- vezycash 6y agoOf course it did. They wouldn't want anything strengthening Epic's anti-trust case.
- sjwright 6y agoWe have no way of knowing. Both scenarios are entirely plausible.
- JimDabell 6y agoLike you say, there’s no way to know for certain. But I 100% honestly believe this was the likely outcome regardless of any media attention. I’ve appealed plenty of dumb Apple decisions in the past and this is the normal outcome when there’s no media attention at all. He filed the appeal, he didn’t wait for the result. The result has now come in. It’s a massive assumption to attribute that result to media attention. Perhaps if your only experience of the Apple review process is hearing about it when it pops up on Hacker News then it’s easy to make the assumption that the media did this, because the media is always involved in those cases. But this is what happens without the media getting involved as well.
- dj_mc_merlin 6y agoAll valid points, and I do agree that the most likely outcome was this. That said, the media storm basically guaranteed it, and there is a very important difference between those two probabilities, even if the expected outcome is the same.
- tailspin2019 6y ago> media storm basically guaranteed it Not sure I agree that it guaranteed it but I do agree with you that it very likely had an impact - it would have come up on someone's radar.
- parasubvert 6y agoApple (and arguably most medium to large tech vendors) don’t make decisions based on HN opinion/fashion, which is about as consistent as their review process.
- sbuk 6y agoIt was all over Twitter, Reddit an the tech press. Crediting HN with this “victory” is an interesting take...
- dj_mc_merlin 6y agoYou're reading too much into my wording, I meant media attention in general, not HN specifically.