flop_leash_973Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
Didn’t Epic lose the fight against Apple? How is Google more of a monopoly than Apple? It is incredibly easy to sideload apps on Android compared to iPhones, and there are even dedicated unofficial stores. These verdicts are not coherent at all between them.
bleuthootFrom some other comment I read, it apparently was due to google paying companies to set Google’a stuff as their default. Something Apple does not (have to) do.
I guess it makes sense that google lost here, but what doesn’t seem to make sense at all, at least for me, is how on earth apple won when on their platform you literally have no other option than to use apples stuff.
If I had to guess, probably for the same reason you can’t sue for not being able to pick what apps you install on your toaster.
Google probably opened themselves up to this monopoly shit by trying not to be as much of a monopoly as Apple is trying to be.
I’ve heard a lot of lawyers say that the law punishes virtually every good behavior because that behavior can be construed in a way that you can be sued for, and that it favors being a dick more than anything. In this case, that might be what happened?
I mean, not that Google is a saint at all.
Tertle950That is seventeen flavors of idiotic in one sickly smartphone sundae
Law is hell on earth, and lawyers are devils.
inverted_deflectorYeah it still doesnt feel consistent to me. Apple is a large enough marketshare holder for a handheld computer and doesnt even give you an option to sideload another market place. The explanation doesnt make any more sense because google is more open.
Exactly
Cosmic ClericSomeone else commented that the Google trial was jury decided, where the Apple trial was (assumingly) not.