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Apple Trial Ends in Mixed Verdict After Epic’s Monopoly Allegations
- neogodless 5y agoAlready a busy thread about this re: TheVerge.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482895 And a bunch of other submissions... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483564 (NYTimes.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483558 (CNN.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483248 (MSN.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483372 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483162 (Bloomberg.com)
- hypothesis 5y ago> the Court does not find that Apple is an antitrust monopolist in the submarket for mobile gaming transactions. However, it does find that Apple’s conduct in enforcing anti-steering restrictions is anticompetitive. A remedy to eliminate those provisions is appropriate.
- stewx 5y agohttps://archive.md/b96Kx https://archive.md/b96Kx
- IncRnd 5y ago> “The Court does not find that Apple is an antitrust monopolist in the submarket for mobile gaming transactions,” the judge wrote. “However, it does find that Apple’s conduct in enforcing anti-steering restrictions is anticompetitive.” followed by: > “Today the Court has affirmed what we’ve known all along: the App Store is not in violation of antitrust law,” Apple said. Only from a lawyer.... This is from the FTC: "The FTC's competition mission is to enforce the rules of the competitive marketplace — the antitrust laws. These laws promote vigorous competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive mergers and business practices" [1] [1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
- DarthNebo 5y agoWonder if Epic is also going to do the same on their store too?
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- flohofwoe 5y agoAlready possible: https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/06/epic-games-store-devs-can-now-choose-their-own-in-game-payment-processor/ https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/06/epic-games-store-devs-can...
- tchalla 5y agoBoth Apple and Epic are considering an appeal of the decision : https://twitter.com/bobbyallyn/status/1436386058317402112?s=21 https://twitter.com/bobbyallyn/status/1436386058317402112?s=...
- kylec 5y agoSounds like a good compromise then
- thaumasiotes 5y agoYour causality is backwards. There are many, many ways to impose a "compromise" that no one is happy with because it leaves everyone worse off than they were before.
- bookofjoe 5y agohttps://archive.ph/bUUCn https://archive.ph/bUUCn