The rest of his company is owned by the Chinese Communist Party, and he routinely acts as their agent doing things that only serve their interest, such as his little lawsuit against Google & Apple, which was designed to break American and Japanese power over video game platforms so the Chinese could flood the market with their shitty games.
It’s amazing he can claim google and Apple have a monopoly with a straight face. Especially since they both compete with each other and nothing is technically stopping anyone from developing another App Store for android. Samsung had one on their phones, not sure if they still do. And nothing is stopping him from developing an epic phone on his own os or a custom android os….. probably would have been a better use of money than free games and exclusivity deals on EGS.
It’s also not like iPhone users are not aware that it’s a closed system. And the argument of a sunk cost fallacy with having to buy new apps if they switch is silly given a significant number of apps are subscription based or cost 1$. I probably do not have $12 in apps on my phone if even that. And with the price of iPhones, Pixels, and Galaxy phones that extra $12 isn’t going to break the bank
So first off. If you want to have people take what you have to say seriously don’t start with an insult. No one but you are talking about payment processors. Not Tim Sweeney, no one else in this thread, nor me, just you.
Apple and Google being the owners of majority of smart phone OSs on the market does not constitute a monopoly. On the account of there being 2 of them and not one, and nothing is preventing anyone from developing a competing product. Microsoft did, it did not fail because of anything Google or Apple did, but because Microsoft tried doing what Apple does and refused to license their os to other phone manufacturers causing a small pool of potential customers for apps developed on their platform which ended up with no third party app support. All they had to do was license it to other manufacturers and they could have broken into the market.
Once again a point no one was arguing, no one has made a statement pro banning apps on an App Store. But a store controlling what product they sell is also not a monopoly. Porn distributors can’t sue Walmart or any other major retailer for refusing to sell their product. I do think it’s wrong what Apple and Google did to Parlor out of fear that Trump would go the platform so they killed the app even though it broke no part of their TOS. But again not a monopoly.
Uh, google kinda stops people from making another app store for android by virtue of mandating that all android phones must have the google play store on it.
Android is open source. Nothing stops anyone from making changes to the os for their phones including removal of the play store. Google just prevents them from using the android trademark if they don’t fall in line with their comparability standards. Technically speaking they could hit every metric of compatibility with the exception of the play store and third party apps would run on their os exactly the same. All it would take would be a smart marketing campaign to explain it. So they don’t have to have it on it.
In 10 years he'll be believing all the same things the people on Mastodon believe today, because to not do so means being a social pariah; so his protestations today are meaningless.
I would congratulate him for making the leap to Linux, but who am I kidding? He's going to go crawling back to Windows the first time he gets even the faintest whiff of the command line.
I had a good laugh at all the posts trying to outdo one another regarding how problematic using the term "refugee" is when speaking about people coming over from twitter. Sounds awesome.
I keep forgetting Mastodon is anything other than a music group.
Tim Sweeney is an agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
He is a dumb smart person.
The rest of his company is owned by the Chinese Communist Party, and he routinely acts as their agent doing things that only serve their interest, such as his little lawsuit against Google & Apple, which was designed to break American and Japanese power over video game platforms so the Chinese could flood the market with their shitty games.
It’s amazing he can claim google and Apple have a monopoly with a straight face. Especially since they both compete with each other and nothing is technically stopping anyone from developing another App Store for android. Samsung had one on their phones, not sure if they still do. And nothing is stopping him from developing an epic phone on his own os or a custom android os….. probably would have been a better use of money than free games and exclusivity deals on EGS.
It’s also not like iPhone users are not aware that it’s a closed system. And the argument of a sunk cost fallacy with having to buy new apps if they switch is silly given a significant number of apps are subscription based or cost 1$. I probably do not have $12 in apps on my phone if even that. And with the price of iPhones, Pixels, and Galaxy phones that extra $12 isn’t going to break the bank
So first off. If you want to have people take what you have to say seriously don’t start with an insult. No one but you are talking about payment processors. Not Tim Sweeney, no one else in this thread, nor me, just you.
Apple and Google being the owners of majority of smart phone OSs on the market does not constitute a monopoly. On the account of there being 2 of them and not one, and nothing is preventing anyone from developing a competing product. Microsoft did, it did not fail because of anything Google or Apple did, but because Microsoft tried doing what Apple does and refused to license their os to other phone manufacturers causing a small pool of potential customers for apps developed on their platform which ended up with no third party app support. All they had to do was license it to other manufacturers and they could have broken into the market.
Once again a point no one was arguing, no one has made a statement pro banning apps on an App Store. But a store controlling what product they sell is also not a monopoly. Porn distributors can’t sue Walmart or any other major retailer for refusing to sell their product. I do think it’s wrong what Apple and Google did to Parlor out of fear that Trump would go the platform so they killed the app even though it broke no part of their TOS. But again not a monopoly.
So learn to read and try not to be a cunt.
Uh, google kinda stops people from making another app store for android by virtue of mandating that all android phones must have the google play store on it.
Android is open source. Nothing stops anyone from making changes to the os for their phones including removal of the play store. Google just prevents them from using the android trademark if they don’t fall in line with their comparability standards. Technically speaking they could hit every metric of compatibility with the exception of the play store and third party apps would run on their os exactly the same. All it would take would be a smart marketing campaign to explain it. So they don’t have to have it on it.
In 10 years he'll be believing all the same things the people on Mastodon believe today, because to not do so means being a social pariah; so his protestations today are meaningless.
Yeah, one of those things is not like the others, Timmy. Reminder that your own company has sucked plenty of rainbow dick.
That reminds me tomorrow is when the Steam Autumn Sale starts.
Guess Ubisoft crawling back to Steam broke him.
I would congratulate him for making the leap to Linux, but who am I kidding? He's going to go crawling back to Windows the first time he gets even the faintest whiff of the command line.
Considering he did a lot of coding during the early unreal days I doubt a command line frightens him that much.
No Agenda's Adam keeps talking about Mastodon. Guess you can setup your own "federated" server. Thats all I know.
HEY!
Don't disrespect Linux like that.
Isn't mastadon the antifa faggot network that failed to be anything except a glowy hookup and woke bitchfest?
I had a good laugh at all the posts trying to outdo one another regarding how problematic using the term "refugee" is when speaking about people coming over from twitter. Sounds awesome.
Mastodon is so fucking far left it's not even funny.
So many Twitter leftists are surprised they were getting banned on Mastodon.
The only guy I ever read on Mastodon was Thomas Wictor.
I found the website hard to use, and because of that, I haven't read him in years.