Tons of people here hate Apple, but the GP’s point that Epic is not a very sympathetic defendant is very true.
They’re not some small developer losing 30% that could help feed their family, they’re a huge company that is (arguably) exploiting children. They weren’t hurt by a sudden Apple price hike, they agreed to all the terms fairly then unilaterally said “screw you, my money!” In about the most blatant way possible.
And it’s pretty obvious this isn’t because they want to save 30%, it’s because they want to be the store charging others a big percentage and taking game sales revenue. The moment they win this they would have launched suits against the console makers to try to get their way there too.
Epic clearly only cared about themselves and only wrapped themselves in the cloak of “help all developers” for PR purposes.
I suspect a lot of people don’t care one bit about Epic. They just happen to be the name on the plaintiff’s chair.
My point was that somebody not being sympathetic doesn't mean they are wrong. There are strong arguments to the effect that Apple being able to force (what is effectively) a 30% tax through AppStore exclusivity is misusing their market power. This argument doesn't depend in any way on whether Epic has a clean slate, just as the sky doesn't get any less blue just because Hi...Trump said it was blue.
Tons of people here hate Apple, but the GP’s point that Epic is not a very sympathetic defendant is very true.
They’re not some small developer losing 30% that could help feed their family, they’re a huge company that is (arguably) exploiting children. They weren’t hurt by a sudden Apple price hike, they agreed to all the terms fairly then unilaterally said “screw you, my money!” In about the most blatant way possible.
And it’s pretty obvious this isn’t because they want to save 30%, it’s because they want to be the store charging others a big percentage and taking game sales revenue. The moment they win this they would have launched suits against the console makers to try to get their way there too.
Epic clearly only cared about themselves and only wrapped themselves in the cloak of “help all developers” for PR purposes.
I suspect a lot of people don’t care one bit about Epic. They just happen to be the name on the plaintiff’s chair.