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Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%

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Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20% - The Lemmy Club

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Mar 4 at 8:56pmWeb
Show threadPicassoMar 4

they talk about alternative stores as well but fail to do a great reporting on the issue … a alternative appstore that need’s google approve it’s simply not a real alternative.

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Show threaddan1101Mar 5
Good news is GrapheneOS is planned to be available on Motorola phones. Probably time to leave Google and Microsoft behind.
Show threadGormadtMar 5
NGL I was excited to hear the news of official GrapheneOS devices coming, hopefully they won’t just be their flagship devices but the whole product stack.
Show threadDeepSeaStringMar 6
Have they figured out how to fix the banking app issue? 
Show threadLem453Mar 6

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Check compatibility here.

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Show threaddan1101Mar 6
Wow not bad, that’s a pretty big list.
Show threadDeepSeaStringMar 6
Thanks so much my bank is supported! I just wish my device was too. I’ll probably get one that supports it because I really want to move away from google
Show threadEcholynxMar 6
Ever since Samsung locked my bootloader in a surreptitious update, I’m eager to jump ship.
Show threadProgramman4233Mar 4
Correct me if I’m wrong, but can’t this be used as a precedent for other app makers that are screwed over by google’s monopoly?
Show threadFlying_PenguinMar 4
If I’m reading the article correctly it’s dropping for all app developers. Not just Epic.
Show threadEonNShadowMar 4

Alright so

Line must go up, so where are they going to recoup that loss of revenue?

Show threadh54Mar 4
Ads as far as the eye can see… and more!
Show threadnullMar 5
So no change then?
Show threadh54Mar 5
There can always be more!
Show threadHonytawkMar 6
Not unless you want competitors to take over your market share.
Show threadHominineMar 4
I suspect it’ll be ignored like so much else in this hysterical market. The question is how can they spin the new metrics; creative reporting abounds.
Show threaddb2Mar 5
Reminder: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has defended child pornography, saying that stopping it is “gatekeeping”.
Show threadMakhnoMar 5
Thanks, John Google.
Show threadmadcaesarMar 5

All mega corps are shit and run by assholes.

Except Costco. For now at least.

Show threadAlligatorBlizzardMar 5
As someone who just tried to sign up for a Costco membership online and couldn’t get past the first page of registration, on multiple devices, Costco is kinda shit too, lol.
Show threadJyekMar 5
Just go into the store. They’ll sign you up.
Show threadAlligatorBlizzardMar 5
Planning on it lol. Was just mildly annoyed because I needed a product I have to order through their website anyway and I’ll probably need to get a month supply somewhere else to hold me over until I can get the membership and finally get it shipped.
Show threadnullMar 5
It wasn’t so much he was defending child pornography as he was saying leftists wanted to selectively take down a right-wing social media platform that right-wingers already successfully took from leftists and replaced with X.
Show threaddb2Mar 5
That’s definitely an opinion. A wrong one, but an opinion.
Show threadnullMar 5
That’s fine and all, but the same people saying Sweeney defended pedophilia are close to if not the same people who say you’re defending pedophiles if you don’t like payment processors strong-arming porn off of a bunch of different platforms. This is not an accusation against you.
Show threaddb2Mar 5
I’ve literally never heard that claim until just now.
Show threadnullMar 5
That’s not surprising. There aren’t a lot of people rising up to defend the porn games that got delisted on sites like itch. Don’t worry, once all the porn is gone you’ll be hearing people saying the same thing to you when you argue against using facial recognition to shitpost on the internet. Gotta protect the kids!
Show threadMr_Dr_OinkMar 5

Right wingers? You mean a nazi? A nazi took twitter that was traditionally not a political platform. It was not left wing. Google says a study showed that it was algorithmicly right leaning in terms of content.

Your comment is a load of bollocks.

Sorry to say.

Show threadnullMar 6

I’m going to selectively edit my post to make it easier for you to read and not get distracted from the point of what I was saying.

It wasn’t so much he was defending child pornography as he was saying leftists wanted to selectively take down a right-wing social media platform that right-wingers already successfully took from leftists and replaced with X.

Show threadMr_Dr_OinkMar 6

And i am going to point out that i responded to the part of your comment that i had a problem with.

I don’t know anything about the “point of your post” so i can’t comment.

But i would say that after brief google search, if Tim Sweeney wants to defend AIs making deepfake porn then X is 100% thr best platform to do it on. 🙄

Show threadIronBirdMar 6
reality has a well known left-wing bias
Show threadfallaciousBasisMar 6

His position was essentially:

  • AI systems sometimes produce harmful or illegal content despite safeguards.
  • Governments shouldn’t use that as a reason to pressure platform gatekeepers to remove an entire service.

    • Important distinctions:

  • He said he defends open platforms and free speech.
  • He explicitly said he does not defend the harmful content itself.
    • Show threadryperMar 5
    So after all that, Epic just got the commission cut by 1/3? Wonder how long it’ll take their savings to equal what they spent on legal fees and the revenue they missed while Fortnite wasn’t on the Play Store.
    Show threadLtcpanicMar 5
    Interesting differences in the apple case en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple
    Epic Games v. Apple - Wikipedia