Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
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Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#2Good luck, iDevices are a very tiny portion of European mobile market.
Looking forward to the EpicOS Phone, running yet another SDL/Qt variant.
Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#3Good luck, iDevices are a very tiny portion of European mobile market. Looking forward to the EpicOS Phone, running yet another SDL/Qt variant.
Even so, Apple has gotten far more whacks for violating EU law than anyone else in this space.
Not only that, winning a case against a company in EU over antitrust often bolsters your defense in the US due to courts preferring to hear about established case law by other courts with similar laws.
Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#4There is room for 3rd party app stores. Epic will argue that Apple does an absolutely ghastly terrible job of curating the Apple app store, as Apple really has little incentive not to suck completely. The EU court will agree. Apple will spend a year or two saying “it can’t be done”, then issue a signing certificate to Epic.
Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#5I assume this doesn't affect the UK any more?
Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#6I assume this doesn't affect the UK any more?
> Epic Games has also complained to the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and to the Australian watchdog.
Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#7Epic has too much money and IDK if Tim Cooks plays in the same league with and once Jobs, Sweeney and Huateng. Plus Zuck who just got started. I wouldn't want to be in a war with them together.
Tim is not dumb, not at all but he just maintained one of the industry's strongest network effect/lock-in, not more. Beyond M1 there is not a lot that is not from Jobs' inheritance. Ah yes, broken keyboards for more than three years.
Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#8Good luck, iDevices are a very tiny portion of European mobile market. Looking forward to the EpicOS Phone, running yet another SDL/Qt variant.
If I were a mobile phone manufacturing company, I won't call 30% of European market a "tiny portion".
Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#9Good luck, iDevices are a very tiny portion of European mobile market. Looking forward to the EpicOS Phone, running yet another SDL/Qt variant.
According to StatCounter it’s ~30% while it’s two times smaller than in the US (~60%) I wouldn’t say it’s “tiny”.
Re: Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
#10Epic has too much money and IDK if Tim Cooks plays in the same league with and once Jobs, Sweeney and Huateng. Plus Zuck who just got started. I wouldn't want to be in a war with them together. Tim is not dumb, not at all but he just maintained one of the industry's strongest network effect/lock-in, not more. Beyond M1 there is not a lot that is not from Jobs' inheritance. Ah yes, broken keyboards for more than three…
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