I'm pretty shocked to see so many siding with Apple on this. Not that Epic are exactly "the good guys", but this seems like complete BS on Apple's part.
Yes - They're being a bunch of pricks & they will end up getting a massive slapdown at some point. Their blatantly malicious compliance attempt at following the DMA will backfire on them.
It's not just Epic they're dicks to, they abuse their position to smack up Spotify as well
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They undercut Spotify by not applying the same rules to themselves & use their baked-in access to push their own competing product. Something MS got heavily beaten for back in the 90s over the whole Netscape thing.
Apple's response to being fined by the EU was to come out with the most cope blogpost ever, crying that Spotify should shutup as Apple provides the API for them to exist on iPhone in the first place.
Completely ignoring that without apps, the iPhone would have never taken off like it did, so it's not like Apple get nothing from developers making apps. Imagine if Microsoft complained about not getting cash for every API call an app like Chrome used.
Apple do absolutely need bringing down a peg or two, because they've become a modern-day version of Microsoft in the 90s
During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock traded sideways, Ballmer made sure it was still raining dividends. Yet, today, that era of Microsoft is not looked upon too fondly. It's seen as being anchored in the company's historic paranoia...
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