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by mullingitover 1755 days ago
I think ultimately this is why Apple and Google will get off with a slap on the wrist - like Korea, Japan, et al, we have our state industries that compete in the global economy. Apple and Google are our champion competitors, and while the US wants to appear principled, we also want to crush our global competitors. There is a snowflake's chance in hell that the US is going to cripple our champions in the name of principles, because it's not principles that are the concern, but the appearance of being principled. Why would we help the non-US businesses compete with the home team?
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ClumsyPilot 1755 days ago
"Why would we help the non-US businesses compete with the home team?"

Because your home team is trashing your house, racketeering your businesses and pissing in your garbage bins. They harm US consumers first and foremost

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mullingitover 1755 days ago
> They harm US consumers first and foremost

Problem is, it's hard to find these consumers who are 'harmed' and clamoring for redress of their grievances. I'm one of them and I'm actually very happy with the value delivered per dollar in the existing mobile space.

Other businesses harmed? Maybe, but if you think that Epic is going to drop their prices 30% in lockstep with a hypothetical elimination of app store fees, I have a bridge to sell you. This dream of a breakup of Google and Apple is not going to be the boon to consumers that some idealists are imagining.

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mrep 1755 days ago
> if you think that Epic is going to drop their prices 30% in lockstep with a hypothetical elimination of app store fees, I have a bridge to sell you.

While not 30%, they did drop 20% when switching to their own payment processing [0]. And even if they didn't, more money to them allows them to hire more developers to make their games better for their customers.

[0]: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...

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mullingitover 1755 days ago
I don't see what's stopping them from doing that right now, they're running very fat 43% profit margins currently in their tech sweatshop[1].

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/23/18507750/fortnite-work-cru...

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