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Hey maybe not fuckepic just this once.
Lmao, the fuckepic and 'Tim Sweeney is a bastard man' sentiments were always wildly overblown.
The fact that anyone took Apple's side in this case (because the Epic game store paid for a couple exclusive games to try and break into the market) is laughably childish.
Apple literally rips off the entire world to the tune of billions of dollars a year through app store mafia extortion fees alone, let alone the rest of their anti-competitive bullshit.
Epic was just trying to break into the Apple / Google / Steam monopolies and made a couple unpopular / anti-consumer business moves on a couple games (all the while taking afar smaller cut of profits than any other store), meanwhile Apple has based their literal entire multi-decade business model on anti-consumer choices and done that for every single hardware and software device they sell you.
They are not remotely comparable. Epic was always fully in the right in their anti-monopoly legal battles.
Always fuck epic, but fuck Apple harder.
That there's a very narrow overlap of epic and general consumer/other devs interests doesn't make epic good.
Tbh for a broken clock Sweeney shows the right time remarkably often. Can't believe it, the bar for people like him is so low just being consistent is noteworthy lol
At least he never cosplayed team pleb tbh... Kinda doing his own "situation"
Rest of them is one of "us" hard working mavrevk or some shite
Still cunt tho
It's always fun when two terrible tech giants fight it out.
Indeed, a little bit of intra-class war for them, for a change.
Epic's most redeeming quality is their willingness to take bigger companies to court for their trash policies. Now if only we could get the FTC to do their jobs so Epic wouldn't have to...
Didn't Elon gut the FTC?
Yes but Apple did not build this system in the last 3 months, they've done it over the course of 3 decades.
I recommend liberal use of the concept of critical support