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iPhone_7 10/14/21 11:28:36 AM #1:	What team are you corporate fanboys on? Team Apple & Google Team Epic "Let Them Fight" What team are you corporate fanboys on? - Results (12 votes) Team Apple & Google 16.67% (2 votes) 2 Team Epic 0% (0 votes) 0 "Let Them Fight" 83.33% (10 votes) 10 Says Epic's mainly after "tremendous monetary gain and wealth". Google has struck back against Epic in the ongoing antitrust litigation between the companies. This countersuit, which has to be seen in the context of Epic's other major legal fights (most notably against Apple), centres around Project Liberty, a 2020 scheme whereby Epic surreptitiously added alternative payment methods to the Android and iOS versions of Fortnite and then sued Google and Apple and launched a PR campaign intended to get the public on its side. Epic says, essentially, that these big platform-holders are operating monopolies and, as such, they should be forced to allow developers to use their own payment systems in apps. The first judgement in the Epic vs Apple case is complicated, and currently being appealed. Essentially, the courts rejected all of Epic's arguments except for a single, fairly important one: that Apple should allow developers to link to alternative methods of in-app payments. This is what's being appealed by Apple, while Epic is appealing everything else, and resolution seems a long way off. What is the meaning of the word button, anyway? Google has a much stronger starting hand than Apple, inasmuch as it doesn't operate such a closed system as iOS in the first place: Android users or developers are not forced to use Google Play in order to download or distribute apps (bypassing Google Pay's payment mechanism is a big part of this suit). Google's lawyers argue that Android "gives app developers and smartphone consumers more openness and choice than any other major competitor." https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/google-countersues-epic-using-apples-core-arguments/ --- Sig User Logic https://imgur.com/lA5fm7w <cite>iPhone_7 posted [p:959023859] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote> What team are you corporate fanboys on? Team Apple & Google Team Epic "Let Them Fight" Vote View Results What team are you corporate fanboys on? - Results (12 votes) Team Apple & Google 16.67% (2 votes) 2 Team Epic 0% (0 votes) 0 "Let Them Fight" 83.33% (10 votes) 10 Show Voting Form <quote>Says Epic's mainly after "tremendous monetary gain and wealth". Google has struck back against Epic in the ongoing antitrust litigation between the companies. This countersuit, which has to be seen in the context of Epic's other major legal fights (most notably against Apple), centres around Project Liberty, a 2020 scheme whereby Epic surreptitiously added alternative payment methods to the Android and iOS versions of Fortnite and then sued Google and Apple and launched a PR campaign intended to get the public on its side. Epic says, essentially, that these big platform-holders are operating monopolies and, as such, they should be forced to allow developers to use their own payment systems in apps. The first judgement in the Epic vs Apple case is complicated, and currently being appealed. Essentially, the courts rejected all of Epic's arguments except for a single, fairly important one: that Apple should allow developers to link to alternative methods of in-app payments. This is what's being appealed by Apple, while Epic is appealing everything else, and resolution seems a long way off. What is the meaning of the word button, anyway? Google has a much stronger starting hand than Apple, inasmuch as it doesn't operate such a closed system as iOS in the first place: Android users or developers are not forced to use Google Play in order to download or distribute apps (bypassing Google Pay's payment mechanism is a big part of this suit). Google's lawyers argue that Android "gives app developers and smartphone consumers more openness and choice than any other major competitor."</quote> https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/google-countersues-epic-using-apples-core-arguments/ </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DeadBankerDream 10/14/21 11:30:26 AM #2:	I did not know Android was a google thing. --- "That thick shaft that causes women to shudder!" <cite>DeadBankerDream posted [p:959023907] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>I did not know Android was a google thing. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
iPhone_7 10/14/21 11:52:15 AM #3:	CE was on this like crazy when it was Apple vs. Epic. --- Sig User Logic https://imgur.com/lA5fm7w <cite>iPhone_7 posted [p:959024563] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>CE was on this like crazy when it was Apple vs. Epic. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
UnholyMudcrab 10/14/21 11:53:02 AM #4:	Not this shit again --- https://imgur.com/VeNBg https://imgur.com/gd5jC8q https://imgur.com/PKIy7 https://imgur.com/3p29JqP <cite>UnholyMudcrab posted [p:959024583] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>Not this shit again</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Sexypwnstar 10/14/21 11:56:06 AM #5:	Let them fight --- https://imgur.com/Su4g5 https://imgur.com/21DiJ <cite>Sexypwnstar posted [p:959024666] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>Let them fight </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
iPhone_7 10/14/21 7:16:17 PM #6:	Bump --- Sig User Logic https://imgur.com/lA5fm7w <cite>iPhone_7 posted [p:959038072] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>Bump </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
iPhone_7 10/15/21 3:09:36 PM #7:	Bump2 --- Sig User Logic https://imgur.com/lA5fm7w <cite>iPhone_7 posted [p:959065128] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>Bump2 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Trumble 10/15/21 3:12:27 PM #8:	Yeah, the fact that you're not locked in to using Google Play on Android, unlike the App Store on iOS, really does make it not quite the same thing. I'd still say it's immoral for Google to be applying such a rule, but unlike Apple I wouldn't go as far as saying they should be forced not to. --- As you change your Trumble, the Trumble on all your posts will be updated to your new Trumble. <cite>Trumble posted [p:959065222] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>Yeah, the fact that you're not locked in to using Google Play on Android, unlike the App Store on iOS, really does make it not quite the same thing. I'd still say it's immoral for Google to be applying such a rule, but unlike Apple I wouldn't go as far as saying they should be forced not to. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
iPhone_7 10/16/21 7:40:08 PM #9:	Last bump --- Sig User Logic https://imgur.com/lA5fm7w <cite>iPhone_7 posted [p:959104076] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>Last bump </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
unnamedsoldier 10/16/21 7:40:44 PM #10:	both of them are evil <cite>unnamedsoldier posted [p:959104089] in Google cou... [t:79710348]...</cite> <quote>both of them are evil</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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