[austin-cheney]

Its all the same evil. The name of the game is vendor lock-in to a consolidated platform, also known as a walled garden. Google gives a lot away for free as well. When you access these applications are the applications the products or are you the product? To me that determines where the evil occurs as it drives motivation.

[klipklop]

While not ideal, I’ll take several walled gardens over having only Google’s garden.

[lern_too_spel]

All corporations are motivated by profit. What matters is if the way the corporation chases profits happens to align with my interests. It does for Epic in the cases I mentioned. For Google, it aligns maybe 20% of the time. For Apple, basically never.

[sbuk]

Targeting kids with micropayments aligns to your interests?

[lern_too_spel]

Is that one of the cases I mentioned?

Epic didn't target kids for micropayments. They optimized their microtransaction flow without properly accounting for how it would affect kids playing the game and took remediation steps after the lawsuit was filed. https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-ftc-settlemen...

Apple settled a similar lawsuit.