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Imagine the data this would yield: millions and millions of desktop applications with chat logs, hardware specs, usage patterns, social graphs, anti cheat that monitors everything, even more spending habits, the developer ecosystem and any monitoring that goes with that…
don't they already get most of that with Chrome already?
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don't they already get most of that with Chrome already?
Gamers complain a lot less about telemetry. Intrusive DRM and anticheat is a way of life for them.
Okay this is probably a stupid question, but how would Google go about doing this when Tim Sweeney is adamant that he owns over 50% of Epic's shares and Tencent only has a 'non-controlling' (as Sweeney has said in the past) 40%? As Epic is a private company, I don't understand how this is possible, but then again I'm not well versed in this stuff at all.
It was the first question I had when I read the headline as well. The only possibility I could think of was the 60% of EPIC doesn't belong to Tim alone, but a holding companies that could have other investors. If Tencent were willing to sell Google could just buy another 10.1% controlling stake.
The problem with this theory is that Tencent is one of the largest gaming companies in the world. And "the" largest in Mobile gaming. The lawsuit EPIC had against Google directly benefits Tencent. So why would Tencent sell their shares to Google?
Epic is losing a great opportunity to build a gaming device with a friendly developer store and kick Google/Apple stores.
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Tim's on the low end of billionaires. Google can easily buy him out.
How would that qualify as a ‘hostile’ takeover?
Epic is losing a great opportunity to build a gaming device with a friendly developer store and kick Google/Apple stores.