@EC_AVService This does not bode well. Apple astroturfing misleading claims to the point of attaching misleading community notes on the European Commission’s public communications is a dangerous gambit.
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Is this the "fair competition" praised by recent articles?
If a store with dominant market share taking a 30% cut can bully developers into not passing on savings to customers on competing stores with lower fees, then competition doesn't stand a chance.
If a store with dominant market share taking a 30% cut can bully developers into not passing on savings to customers on competing stores with lower fees, then competition doesn't stand a chance.
Newly revealed court documents from an ongoing antitrust lawsuit claim that Valve once threatened to remove Rainbow Six Siege from Steam after Ubisoft tried selling the game at a lower price on its own storefront, Uplay.
According to the reports, Ubisoft introduced a cheaper of Rainbow Six Siege outside of Steam.
Valve allegedly warned Ubisoft that the game could be removed from Steam if the pricing difference wasn’t addressed. Ubisoft changed course, and the game remained on the platform.
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Everyone’s being too harsh here. There has been a significant rise in the cost of components that Steam customer spending ultimately funds, and economic trends have created severe disruptions in the component parts supply chain for megayachts.
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He is clearly mocking the management decision of Valve about the price increase of the Steam Deck to gain engagement, while Epic Games under his leadership has faced repeated mismanagements, major layoffs of almost 830 staff in 2023 and over 1000 more in March 2026.
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This is a critical moment in the battle against the App Store empire to win freedom for all developers and consumers, and we'll continue the fight in every jurisdiction worldwide until competition is restored to digital stores and payment markets everywhere.
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We cool with Google! Fortnite is back on Google Play, Epic Games Store is available worldwide on Android, and Epic v Google has settled with a peace treaty. Over the coming 18 months, we'll be rolling out better deals on direct payments on Android worldwide.
@TimSweeneyEpic what's the latest on the Google Play situation?
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@drbarnard Apple doesn't need Epic for that. They're free to turn over a new leaf and unilaterally open everything up at WWDC, bringing back the Apple of Woz!
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@tnertz I was going to post my thoughts here, but it is more telling to post Phil Schiller's thoughts from this email in public evidence to the Epic v Apple trial:
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@eric_seufert The claim that the injunction allows Apple to block competing payments rendered in web views is a stretch and hasn’t been adjudicated. Apple didn’t and can’t under the injunction prohibit buttons.
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A computer can do anything provided you learn to tell it how.
Very recently, this has become vastly easier to do.
Chalk up another victory for Carmack’s Law:
Very recently, this has become vastly easier to do.
Chalk up another victory for Carmack’s Law:
Doing comp sci research with Opus 4.6 Extended (here, in the context of an upcoming Verse programming language theory paper) is really a Flowers for Algernon moment. It's a superpower, like having a team of graduate students that can answer questions on demand on any topic.
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@sephr @Goog_Enough Google isn’t allowed to take a percentage of revenue from registered stores, and the fees must be designed to cover costs of review.
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@Goog_Enough That’s not true. We just agreed not to criticize or oppose the things we agreed that Google could do under the settlement. Here’s the relevant text.
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@charlieINTEL That’s not what the settlement says. Here are the relevant terms from the public settlement document. Essentially: Epic won’t criticize Google for doing the things we agreed they could do when we agreed to settle together.
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