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Comment by camhart | Hacker News Reader

Epics actions may have been dishonest, but what rebellion is?

Regardless, Epics actions don't remove the case that Apple has a monopoly and uses anti-competitive practices to benefit itself at the cost of the consumer and creator.

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Sure, but you can understand why courts aren't in the business of allowing themselves to be a vector for rebellions. ;)

Fair enough :)

Anti-competitive practice to benefit itself? Yes, Apple sure has done this, as has Epic and every business ever. A monopoly though? I mean I guess, as much as Epic has a monopoly on its App Store.

I keep reading this analogy, but it does not make sense.

Apple is controlling access to customers with iOS devices. There is no alternative.

Epic is not. Any competitor can sell to the same people that buy from Epic's store.

Not GP, but this is not exactly correct. Epic has been buying up releases to sell exclusively (just like consoles do in their walled garden monopolies).

Yeah, it's funny how people conveniently forget that and cry for the poor billionaire underdog.

And they're warring about the commission on ... in app purchases ... on a predatory free game aimed at teenagers?

Yes and doesn’t Epic offer self serving discounts on fees I’d you use their own game development platform?

But I can’t buy virtual currency somewhere else and use in Fortnite. I still have to go through Epic to buy digital goods on their platform.

Right exactly, you’ve narrowly defined a monopoly for your argument as “mobilizing iOS devices”, just like Epic had a monopoly on its App Store. There is a 100% analogous alternative to iOS devices: Android devices.

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