Epic v Apple

>no mention of Steam being a monopoly
UH OH, TIMMY
HAHAHAHAHAHAAH

Thiel kept rambling on about how monopolies are fucking great and every startup should strive for a monopoly since like a decade in his TED-talk-likes.

Cool.

Now all we need is for the Senate to pass an act that would directly harm large corporations, and for the President to sign off it.

Should be easy.

>reamed
Only in Europe, and only sort of.
He was probably being tongue-in-cheek

Epic sucks
Apple sucks
Steam sucks

Where else would he say it, Gab? Mastadon? Twitter and Facebook are the only social media sites anyone uses.

this, microsoft is past the time they were interested in world domination.

Fuck apple but why is them selling most shit on their propriety devices and software considered an issue?

>House submits bill
>it requires that Facebook and Google deplatform everyone to the right of Mitt Romney and that they donate 500 million to blacks trannies with HIV

>Only in Europe

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>trusting literally anyone ever with a monopoly
oh nononoetc

>He was probably being tongue-in-cheek
And i'm not leftypol, btw.

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This. This is what happens when there are monopolies in industry. Inherently bad? Not always, but capitalism has a lot of incentives for a company to act like this. Data compiling, price gouging, that kinda shit.

Check out teddy roosevelt if you want some more info on this kinda shit

>NOOO YOU CANT COMPLAIN ABOUT SOCIETY IF YOU ARE A PART OF IT

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It is considered an issue that anyone else who wants to sell stuff on Apple's iOS platforms has to go through Apple's store and shit to do it.

If this Passes, Consoles are FUCKED since the 30% Applies to them as well

Like imagine if EA Sued Sony and Nintendo for not allowing EA Origins on PS5 or Switch ?

How many cents did Jeff Bezos pay you to write this post?

There is no law, just a bunch of people saying "we believe X is true"
Based retard.

Corporate bootlickers in 3...2...1

What did the American government do to Microsoft? Clinton's anti-trust actions did basically nothing but set the stage for Democratic dominance of big tech. By contrast, Microsoft got sued to the tune of billions for merely bundling WMP on their OS's.
I mean, it's a proven strategy. Not like he endorses the government actions that create monopolies.

>terrorist runes

I have a monopoly on your mom's pussy lmao

Apple being in control of what they allow on their platform doesn't sound like a monopoly.

Fuck Apple, but I hate Epic more so I'm glad Tim is biting the bullet and getting reamed on that end.

>monopolies are not inherently bad
>there's a whole plethora of literature on why they're bad in theory, case studies to back it up and testimonials on why it ruins competition and in the long term stagnates the economy.

How does Facebook have a monopoly on online advertising? That's Google's game almost entirely.

In the gaming sphere there is competition between multiple areas so its not really subject to any of these.
You have technicallly three in the console space, and theres multiple launchers on PC with Steam already going through some reaming themselves.
Consoles need to be looked into regarding refunds at the very least because the refund clauses on these machines/services are bullshit digital wise.

What's with all the Epig shills all of a sudden? Zig Forums stands with Apple and has since the start of this ridiculous war started by Epig.

So, Tim won?

I have a monopoly on the usage of my onahole. Is that bad too?

Problem is apple is being challenged by several companies alleging Apple is being anti-competitive with its app store. And google and facebook have been accused of censorship, and google has been accused of blocking growing competitors from their other services. Amazon... Is kind of blameless here imo. ebay and walmart both did it first and it's not like amazon stopped them

This. Be good little goyim and shut up about it

>apple has a monopoly on the distribution of apps on their own device and platform
no shit

>not knowing a language spoken by 310M+ people
but let me guess - nippon tribesman runes are okay?

My experience has been that they do offer refunds, they just really don't want people knowing that. I've never had a refund request turned down by any of them.

It's a digital market place, new world new rules.

yes, you have to open it to the public or face fines

Tim's goal was never raising awareness of big tech monopolies, Tim's goal was to become a big tech monopoly and get lots of money. Timmy now has much less revenue than he did before and nothing to show for it.

Monopoly is a board game, right? Why is this shit on Zig Forums and not /tg/? Mods do your job.

Android has multiple alternative ways to acquire apps

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This is dumb, every platform is a monopoly of itself

>nippon
Not him but unironically yes, it's a country that is considered part of the Western world unlike the Middle East, China and almost every other part of the Hemisphere that isnt the EU.

But who's going to pay when I and everyone who uses my onahole ends up getting AIDS or some other kind of virus?

No, being a monopoly is completely legal under US law, is only a problem when monopoly power is used to stifle competition

they're pretty bad for the consumer but they're not inherently illegal

This. The dumb fuck probably thought that Apple would just let him get away with it and then when they didn't he had to rush out a shitty lawsuit and some dumb Fortnite short.

The only new features Windows has added in 20 years is more spyware, cortana (more spyware), and an attempt to lock down windows to only MS-approved applications.
Even the most basic of garbage like a windows explorer with tabs still requires external software 30 years after it was standardized in browsers.

I thought he sucked their semen not their blood?

Honestly this gives me such a boner watching you bugmen squirm. Now get back to licking my boots.

sir, this is a committee determining whether or not you have a monopoly on your onahole. any consequences stemming from shared use of the onahole in question is for another committee to figure out.

Don't you have a street to shit on?

>company enjoys monopoly power on the network it runs and phones it makes
???????

They *can* be bad for the consumer, but not necessarily. Much like a benevolent tyrant, a good monopoly is better and more efficient.

Anyone with a brain can see that Tim has a >50% chance of winning, the suit wouldn't even exist otherwise.

Except there isn't a solution that's reasonable for a problem that isn't real. What do you propose, Apple spends their own money building infrastructure for people to sell software for Apple's own software? Or do you just have the government force Apple at gunpoint to release all of it's software as open source?

Why are tax dollars being wasted investigating and discussing the impact of a closed app market on proprietary software that runs on proprietary hardware that holds much less than 50% of the market share?

no one is forced to use google search though

>What's with all the Epig shills all of a sudden?
getting kicked off apple and google has the made river of fortnite money run shallower and shallower

I'm not proposing anything, I think its kind of dumb too.

Amazon was sued by Ebay for deliberately trying to poach Ebay sellers off their site by offering them under the table deals better than what Amazon usually gives people.

Honestly that's what I'm worried about. With all these big companies(Microsoft, Facebook and Spotify for example) siding with Epic and now the House of Representatives ruling that Apple is a monopoly I'm worried that they're actually likely to win.

It isn't just the consumer that gets affected, though

Apple is a hardware manufacturer and should be profiting accordingly. if they don't make the app they can't dictate the terms at which it's distributed. Competition is a good thing.

Also they reduced the prices on all platforms when they did so on mobile due to not having to pay the cut and still haven't went back to full price to this day. I think they think they're making some dumb point.

How in the fuck did Microsoft sneak out of being on that least? It's literaly all big big big tech companies but them.

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>NOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST MODIFY A THING YOU PURCHASED, YOU HAVE TO OBEY THE DMCA, COPYRIGHT LAW IS THE HIGHEST LAW OF THE LAND

>a good monopoly is better and more efficient.
Name one example of a "good" monopoly. Monopolies are always bad, especially the government's monopoly on the use of force.

Alright Tim

>worried
Are you Tim Apple? Why are you worried about their App Store monopoly being broken?

see

Because it means that fucking FortSHIT won. I'd be fine with it if it was any other game developer but not the creator of that cringey normie trash.

So if Nintendo doesn't let me put my asset flip on their store I can sue them for monopolizing software distribution on the switch?