Apple on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an order requiring changes to its App Store rules stemming from an antitrust case brought by "Fortnite" owner Epic Games.
  • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
    101·
    1 year ago

    Apple on Thursday argued the lower court orders violate the U.S. Constitution because they overstep the powers of a federal judge. Apple argued that the trial judge relied on a case brought by a single developer - rather than a broader class of developers - to justify a nationwide ban, without proving that the nationwide ban was needed to remedy the harm caused to Epic.

    That’s a pretty flimsy ground to resist the ruling. But that’s expected when you are the Disney of the tech world.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    1 year ago

    If only the lawyers and judges deciding this knew the joy of having the Epic launcher on their PC.

    Lawyer: “Should anyone be allowed to create a computing platform free from Epic bloatware?”

    Judge: “That wouldn’t be fair, would it?”

    SMH

  • heyspencerb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    57·
    1 year ago

    This should not be a government decision. If you don’t like the closed ecosystem, get a different brand of phone. Government should not force design decisions onto companies

    • bighi@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      So our options should be to accept a company that prevents us from using 100% of OUR phones, or choosing the crappy competitor?

      That’s a lose-lose scenario. Why would anyone defend it?

    • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      I’m all for it when there’s a monopoly. Microsoft has so much market share that them restricting access to the PCs would be anticompetitive.

      Apple is closer to half. And they built the market share they do have with the closed ecosystem because that’s what people want. I don’t want apps to be able to require me to give them my credit card. Subscriptions through Apple are extremely user friendly (even if subscriptions inherently are shit). Cancelling is easy and not buried in dark patterns like every single company that handles their own subscriptions does. “You have to follow our interface guidelines to sell your product on our phone” has massively increased the quality of the apps on my phone. Android is an incoherent mess of bad design because you can do whatever you want, and the experience is worse for it. Whether they recognize it or not, most people are buying Apple because of the pattern of decisions they’ve made as the sole standard setter for products on their platforms.