The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple
www.theguardian.com
The Fortnite maker filed antitrust suits against both tech companies – while one emerged victorious, the other was found at fault on 11 claims

“Google has taken great pains to appear more open than Apple, licensing the Android operating system to third parties like Samsung and allowing users to install apps via other methods than the Play store. Apple does neither. When it comes to exclusivity, Apple has become synonymous with “walled garden” in the public imagination. So why did a jury find that Google held a monopoly but Apple didn’t?”

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    They didn’t.

    They determined that Google colluded with others to protect their monopoly and keep competitors out.

    Monopolies by themselves aren’t illegal.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    They didn’t. Only one of the cases was by jury, so it’s wrong to claim that “a jury found Google held a monopoly but Apple didn’t”.

    And even if they were both jury trials, they’d be different juries, so it’s not like one group of people looked at all the facts and decided Google did the wrong thing and not Apple.

    That’s in addition to the different facts in the case which this article is primarily about.

    • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
      01·
      11 months ago

      I wouldn’t expect anything more form the guardian. They’ve become pretty clickbait and reactionary lately. Quality has dipped.

      • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        I disagree, The Guardian is objectively one of the best free News outlets out there. Also Op is literally just citing a side sentence out of the article. Which makes me to believe you didnt even read the article. The article make is very clear what the differences are and that the Apple case just didn’t have a jury at all.

        • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          You’ve misunderstood what I was commenting on. I am bemoaning the quality in general of the guardian as of late. Not the specific article.

          The guardian is a good newspaper, don’t get me wrong, but it was way better back in the day under the previous editor. The quality has absolutely dropped over the past six years or so and any balance to an article is often rendered right at the end under a clickbait headline. These things have changed.

          Buy look, that’s my opinion and you surely have yours. That’s fine too 👍.

  • Moltz@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Google claimed to be open but ran backroom deals to ensure low competition. In doing so it proved its weight in the industry could squash competition, proving its monopoly, which is illegal.

    Apple never made claims it was open.

    As simple as. Toss in one case was decided by a jury, and the other a judge, and you’ll quickly see neither are related.

    Basically your question was nonsense from the jump, and pushed by blogs and the like to get idiots to click. Had you read the news, you’d get it. By why read when others will explain it for ya.