• evo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      No, Apple won on some technicalities.

      1. They don’t have a major market share globally (despite their larger market share in the US).
      2. Epic’s case was focused on games, which don’t make up the majority of revenue for the App Store, apparently
        • evo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          11 months ago

          How does this have anything to do with market share anyway?

          Are you serious or are you just trolling? This is an anti trust lawsuit. The definition of antitrust is preventing abuse of monopolies. And the definition of a monopoly is “controlling most or all of the market share” or something.

            • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              When discussing the results of court proceedings what matters is the actual law, not what you think should be the law.

                • Pamasich@kbin.social
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  Antitrust is about powerful companies abusing their powerful positions. With powerful I mean control over a market.

                  The idea is that if society is functionally dependent on a product, it shouldn’t be the case that the owning company abuses that position to force people into walled gardens.

                  While it’s of course still bad if a smaller company does it, the amount of people impacted will be lesser, so it’s not seen as critically important to take action against it. So that’s why antitrust laws only target the big ones.

                  I do absolutely disagree with Apple not being big enough though. iOS has a 30% market share in the mobile OS market according to statcounter, that ought to be big enough imo.