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You are right about their end goal, and this is expected from a company with shareholders, I think this is part of the job of a CEO. But you don't know if this

You are right about their end goal, and this is expected from a company with shareholders, I think this is part of the job of a CEO. But you don't know if this is their only end goal.

scarface74 5y ago
If they could get a special deal, do you really think they would take the case to trial, spend the money and have as much of their dirty laundry become part of the record?
- stephc_int13 5y ago
  I don't read in tea leaves, we can only infer their goals from the PR and what seems to be their best self-interest. Internally this is probably a high-risk high-reward kind of plan, but this is a wild guess.
  - scarface74 5y ago
    If they had gotten all of the concessions they wanted, there would have been no reward. If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this? The PR doesn’t tell the story like what came out during court procedures.
    - johnnyanmac 5y ago
      >If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this? the ability to potential lauch EGS on IOS. Success or not, they want that opportunity to try.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    I was actually surprised the went this alone instead of trying to get other devs involved to seek class action status.
    - lupire 5y ago
      They want a policy change, not a $40 coupon.
- gpm 5y ago
  If they could get a special deal, they probably wouldn't have standing to take the case to trial, so they literally couldn't take it to trial. I suspect they would still want to. My personal suspicion about the motivation behind this case is that it's not really about Epic Game's profit, but Tencent's. Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games, and owns a lot of companies who stand to make a lot more money if Apple's forced to open up the app store.

You are right about their end goal, and this is expected from a company with shareholders, I think this is part of the job of a CEO. But you don't know if this is their only end goal.

scarface74 5y ago

If they could get a special deal, do you really think they would take the case to trial, spend the money and have as much of their dirty laundry become part of the record?

stephc_int13 5y ago
I don't read in tea leaves, we can only infer their goals from the PR and what seems to be their best self-interest. Internally this is probably a high-risk high-reward kind of plan, but this is a wild guess.
- scarface74 5y ago
  If they had gotten all of the concessions they wanted, there would have been no reward. If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this? The PR doesn’t tell the story like what came out during court procedures.
  - johnnyanmac 5y ago
    >If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this? the ability to potential lauch EGS on IOS. Success or not, they want that opportunity to try.
- dylan604 5y ago
  I was actually surprised the went this alone instead of trying to get other devs involved to seek class action status.
  - lupire 5y ago
    They want a policy change, not a $40 coupon.
gpm 5y ago
If they could get a special deal, they probably wouldn't have standing to take the case to trial, so they literally couldn't take it to trial. I suspect they would still want to. My personal suspicion about the motivation behind this case is that it's not really about Epic Game's profit, but Tencent's. Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games, and owns a lot of companies who stand to make a lot more money if Apple's forced to open up the app store.