The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple
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The Fortnite maker filed antitrust suits against both tech companies – while one emerged victorious, the other was found at fault on 11 claims

“Google has taken great pains to appear more open than Apple, licensing the Android operating system to third parties like Samsung and allowing users to install apps via other methods than the Play store. Apple does neither. When it comes to exclusivity, Apple has become synonymous with “walled garden” in the public imagination. So why did a jury find that Google held a monopoly but Apple didn’t?”

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Aside from the fact that this isn’t what the lawsuits proved, Google was super blatant about the bad shit they were doing. Digital records showed that Google pretty much knew what they were doing was unethical and possibly illegal, while Apple’s people were smarter about what they wrote down. It’s hard to say whether they got brainwashed into the whole “making the world a better place” mindset Apple tries to exude in its marketing or if they were just smart enough to know how to avoid losing a lawsuit, but Googlers, even in high positions, dropped the pretenses and got burned.