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Epic Games is suing Samsung (and Google) for making it harder to sideload Android apps(9to5google.com)

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rtxn@lemmy.world
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You’re talking about the same Epic that intentionally broke TOS, threw a tantrum when it was correctly kicked off the store, responded with a prepared 80-page lawsuit a day later, lost on all but one count, and is now strutting around pretending it was all for the players while taking their money by the fistful.

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They broke TOS in order to serve the letter. You can’t sue for something that doesn’t affect you. Saying they threw a tantrum is disgraceful

And they should have won the Apple suit but Apple was deemed to not have a large enough market share to have a monopoly…even if they have a monopoly on Apple products

It was terrible news for consumers

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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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Eh a lot of TOS bullshit is exactly that. And Apple is very far from perfect, especially with anything that could even think of threatening their walled garden. I assume everything Apple does is bad for the consumer, because 99% of the time that’s accurate.

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lud@lemm.ee
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Apples TOS is complete bullshit and I support anyone that breaks it.

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rtxn@lemmy.world
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Wow, what a freedom fighter.

Apple’s (and Google&Co’s) walled garden policies are absolute bullshit and should be outlawed, but in this, Epic is in the wrong. They agreed to a contract, they didn’t like it, so they chose to break it. Besides, saying that you “support something” does fuck all. Go and do something. Call a politician and get the law changed, you rebel.

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lud@lemm.ee
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Besides, saying that you “support something” does fuck all.

So what? Am I not allowed to express my opinion because of that?

Also, my politicians have already started to outlaw these practices. There is obviously still much work to be done but it’s happening.

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hate2bme@lemmy.world
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To be fair, calling a politician will do fuck all to change a law, unless you have a giant bag of money, which Google and apple have.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev
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They agreed to a contract, they didn’t like it, so they chose to break it.

What was the contract?

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