A lot of the posts here are making points that I don't think a judge or jury will care for. This is clearly a case of two companies trying to commoditize their complements. End of story.
Epic doesn't have a problem with Apple running an app store, despite what their marketing on this legal issue makes out. Epic has an app store and they charge ~12%. Given my experience with Epic, I am certain that if they had gotten here first, they would be charging the same 30% that Valve charges. Epic's problem is that Apple wont let them run their app store on Apple's stack. Epic wants to run their software everywhere, and commoditize the platforms/OS/hardware.
Apple wants to do the opposite.
IANAL, but I haven't seen any evidence that Apple should not be allowed to do so.
If Apple were the only mobile device available, then we might have a monopoly conversation. But it isn't, so we wont. It isn't even the majority platform in the US.
Where are these points coming from? They aren't from the perspective of a customer.
I am a customer, and I will continue to buy iPhone because of their total integration. Android is a shitshow and you are welcome to it. "Well, I want iOS, except for..." yeah that is Android.
So what is really underneath all this? The money. Epic wants to make more money from Apple's customers. And it wants to do so by destroying the value that Apple customers like me choose over Android.
Samsung makes phones that are at least as good as iPhone.
Android is an OS that lets owners do all of the things that people here are demanding Apple allow them to do.
Yet, strangely, rather than everyone here advocating that we all move to Android, instead, we are demanding that Apple become like Android.
Because nobody here is actually interested in what Apple customers want. They just want access to those customers, even if it means fucking those customers over.
Epic doesn't have a problem with Apple running an app store, despite what their marketing on this legal issue makes out. Epic has an app store and they charge ~12%. Given my experience with Epic, I am certain that if they had gotten here first, they would be charging the same 30% that Valve charges. Epic's problem is that Apple wont let them run their app store on Apple's stack. Epic wants to run their software everywhere, and commoditize the platforms/OS/hardware.
Apple wants to do the opposite.
IANAL, but I haven't seen any evidence that Apple should not be allowed to do so.
If Apple were the only mobile device available, then we might have a monopoly conversation. But it isn't, so we wont. It isn't even the majority platform in the US.
Where are these points coming from? They aren't from the perspective of a customer.
I am a customer, and I will continue to buy iPhone because of their total integration. Android is a shitshow and you are welcome to it. "Well, I want iOS, except for..." yeah that is Android.
So what is really underneath all this? The money. Epic wants to make more money from Apple's customers. And it wants to do so by destroying the value that Apple customers like me choose over Android.
Samsung makes phones that are at least as good as iPhone.
Android is an OS that lets owners do all of the things that people here are demanding Apple allow them to do.
Yet, strangely, rather than everyone here advocating that we all move to Android, instead, we are demanding that Apple become like Android.
Because nobody here is actually interested in what Apple customers want. They just want access to those customers, even if it means fucking those customers over.