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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Look, I despise Google as much as anyone these days, and I'm glad they're taking a beating this time around, but at the same time, it's also kind of bullshit. And it's not even because you can sideload apps, or have alternate appstores on Android, but because we have yet to see the same standards being applied to Apple.

[–] echo64 14 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I don't understand, this is bullshit because Apple won their case? Do you mean the Apple case was bullshit?

[–] xkforce 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Google is a monopoly. Apple in many ways, is also a monopoly. They are lamenting that the latter was not acknowledged.

[–] tux 9 points 1 year ago

Definitely a case of "good, now go do apple again". The mobile marketplaces being locked down and tied to services is bullcrap. If I want a run of the mill open source android OS and to be able to use Gmail (or drive, or some other Google product ) I should not have to allow Google full access to the knowledge of every app I run and the screen time and my location information... Etc, etc.

But I do think the apple win on a technicality will be revisited at some point.

And to be clear, I freaking do not like Epic. But this fight they're on the side I agree with. Open up the mobile platforms.

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