What you need to know about the Epic Games and Apple lawsuit

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Tech analyst Rene Ritchie explains what you need to know about the battle between video game publisher Epic Games and iPhone-maker Apple.

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33 thoughts on “What you need to know about the Epic Games and Apple lawsuit”

  9. "If I had to guess Epic loses on the merits, but the Dept of Justice and the EU are going to weigh in and it may not go so well for Apple there." It's almost criminal that the two political gorillas are assessed to disagree with the legal facts.

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  15. "If Don Corleone had all the judges, and the politicians in New York, then he must share them, or let us others use them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly he can – present a bill for such services. After all – we are not Communists." ― Emilio Barzini

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  18. Irrespective of the actual issue & merits of this case, it's disingenuous to call René Ritchie a 'tech analyst'. He's an Apple evangelist, and it's hard to consider his opinions to be fair on this issue. Why not bring in Epic evangelist to balance this segment?

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  24. No one is discussing the real issue.
    The real issue is having your app free on app store.
    And charging your customers outside the app store like on your website.
    While this is perfectly legal, these app store companies do not like and try to ban. (that's the issue)

    This is the issue companies like basecamp and others run into.
    They are already charging way less to be competitive but then they have to pay 30% to these companies.

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  30. Apple is a monopoly (mostly like a mafia). Getting 30% cut without allowing other market places to compete for selling products or directly by developers, in this case Epic Games. That 30% cut eventually comes out of the end user pocket. This should have been done long ago by consumers as a class action lawsuit against Apple. You already pay a big premium when you buy an iPhone (which will become obsolete by planned obsolescence schemes like non-replaceable battery and so called security upgrades). Why do you have to pay another 30% for software or games from third party to Apple? Imagine Microsoft starts asking for a 30% cut from software developers. Who do you think ends up paying that? The end user. Apple became Apple by being a Mafia and its CEOs are Charlatans including Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. They have demolished all competitions softly as much as they could to get to this position.

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