Huh?? They won this one but not the Apple one??
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I don’t think a subscription would quite work for this. Somebody traveling 10k a month isn’t going to consume the same amount of batteries as someone who’s commuting 1 mile away each day. I certainly wouldn’t want to pay the same amount. Kind of an all you can eat shrimp situation, if you will
Holy fuck I hope they get the pants sued off of them
It does specify the European economic area for (EEA) for these changes. Looks like I’m living in Europe ;)
Get a cheap 2.5" SATA enclosure or an m.2 enclosure and throw a real SSD in it. That’s what I’ve been doing and I get significantly higher speeds for significantly cheaper, as well as not having any fail on me
He also runs a tech repair shop in New York, I could see him being in a lot of tech stuff you’re seeing
That’s Louis Rossman, basically the head of the right to repair movement (nobody’s really the head but for most intents and purposes it’s this guy)
If you support the right to repair, or even if you don’t, it wouldn’t hurt to look into his stuff
The thing here is that you don’t have to use play billing for in app purchases outside of the play store. The biggest example of this is Fire tablets, where you don’t even have the option of play billing on your app even if you wanted it, and I’m sure Huawei isn’t using play billing either. Let alone the fact you can sideload apps that have their own verification methods. When I bought gravitybox it was verified based on your PayPal invoice #. The secret revenue sharing, while “designed to keep apps down”, is nothing more than an incentive to stay on their billing platform. If Epic isn’t offered that deal they’re still free to make deals with other app stores.
Meanwhile on camp Apple, there are no alternative vendors using different stores and you’re unable to sideload apps without a developer account. There is no alternative to Apple’s billing if you want to charge for something inside an app, which is precisely what Epic did to get banned in the first place.
I 100% the verdict to be appealed by Google. I’m not a big fan of Google as a company, but when they’ve specifically made it possible for customers to have the ability to sideload while Apple doesn’t and they get spat in the face for it, why would they continue to make pro-consumer choices?