Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
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Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#2Not sure the labor theory of value is a legal argument, but it would set quite the precedent.
Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#3Going to fall on its head. Apple isnt asking for fruits of their labour but charging from device abuse, management of store and general device health.
Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#4It's easy to come up with such arguments but it's just as easy to come up with equal and opposite arguments like Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission.
Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#5It's easy to come up with such arguments but it's just as easy to come up with equal and opposite arguments like Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission.
> Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission.
Epic should have every right to distribute apps and users every right to download them (outside the app store at no cost to Apple) . Unfortunately in our dystopian reality a couple of corporations get to decide who can run what.
Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#6It's easy to come up with such arguments but it's just as easy to come up with equal and opposite arguments like Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission.
> Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission. Epic should have every right to distribute apps and users every right to download them (outside the app store at no cost to Apple) . Unfortunately in our dystopian reality a couple of corporations get to decide who can run what.
iOS is not an open platform. Apple has never marketed it as such, never promised as such, and there are a healthy number of alternatives (primarily Android) for those who are interested in it.
iOS/Apple have no legal requirement to host Epic's content...or allow Epic to distribute without following Apple's rules...
Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#7Going to fall on its head. Apple isnt asking for fruits of their labour but charging from device abuse, management of store and general device health.
Credit card companies charge ~ 3% to manage a far more complex and fraud-prone ecosystem.
It's Apple's sandpit and they make the rules, but I think it's hard to rationally justify their take other than "because they can".
Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#8Not sure the labor theory of value is a legal argument, but it would set quite the precedent.
App store taxation is theft, comrade! Wait, I think I'm getting my ideologies mixed up here.
Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#9It's easy to come up with such arguments but it's just as easy to come up with equal and opposite arguments like Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission.
> Epic has no right to run anything on iOS except by Apple's permission. Epic should have every right to distribute apps and users every right to download them (outside the app store at no cost to Apple) . Unfortunately in our dystopian reality a couple of corporations get to decide who can run what.
They signed a contract willingly, no one forced them to.
Also they are completely fine with the console stores.
Re: Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing
#10Going to fall on its head. Apple isnt asking for fruits of their labour but charging from device abuse, management of store and general device health.
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