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Pardon me, didn’t Apple win the exact same suit by Epic? Apple’s app store is fine, but Google’s isn’t?
by throwaway87543 3y ago
Pardon me, didn’t Apple win the exact same suit by Epic? Apple’s app store is fine, but Google’s isn’t?
- account-5 3y agoCame here to say something similar.
- ls612 3y agoTwo different cases, 2 different juries (OK the Apple one was a bench trial but you get my point) and neither one is binding precedent over the other.
- osti 3y agoBut can Epic appeal then against Apple?
- account-5 3y agoWere I Google I'd be appealling on the grounds Apple got away with it.
- LordKeren 3y agoThey tried to use the apple case to get this suit dismissed. The judge already declined to dismiss the Google case
- kevindamm 3y agoDid Apple pay companies not to deploy their own app stores? Oh, right, they were restrictive about even an app that had the same functionality as an Apple-made app, let alone competing app stores. This might get interesting.
- scarface_74 3y agoWell, if Google is willing to stop licensing Android to third parties and only sell Pixels, I’m sure they could
- jonny_eh 3y agoI imagine Google will appeal, and the whole shebang will be decided by the Supreme Court, applying to everyone.
- bhouston 3y agoThis is probably where it is going. And yeah, it may cause some type of regulation of OS-integrated app stores and payment systems.
- meepmorp 3y agoBoth sides started appeals in July, iirc.
- osti 3y agoThat's my impression as well. Beyond messed up if true, Android as least allows sideloading.
- superb_dev 3y agoThe system is still working, just slowly. Conflicting rulings from lower courts in very similar cases will be appealed and get put before the Supreme Court, whose ruling will apply to everyone
- plussed_reader 3y agoIt's always leg day in Chief Justice Alito's kangaroo court.
- meepmorp 3y agoJohn Roberts is Chief Justice.
- solardev 3y agoIf they even deign to hear it. Do the supremes even know what a smartphone is? I've never seen a more out of touch bunch of people with so much power.
- aegypti 3y agoHalf the court are in their 50s, it isn’t 2016 anymore for better and worse.
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- madeofpalk 3y agoNo, the cases were very different. Mainly because Google had a whole bunch of emails and contracts with other companies that Apple just doesn’t make.