I go by the saying 'The enemy of my enemy might not be a friend, but I'll let him burn my enemy down while I prepare artillery'
If Epic wants to take on Apple, that's great even if I dislike both companies, Apple is the bigger target that if it can be made to bleed will MASSIVELY help us in the long run. Elon jumping on board to provide data on the twitter side to help the lawsuit and the Chinese protests probably stopping Foxconn production AND reports their workers are trying to leak IPhone data and schematics, damn it looks like Apple picked a fight they weren't ready for.
Shame Google aren't looking to get involved, seems they might have noped out and decided to disappear into the hedge like Homer while the firestorm is brewing.
No I don't mean they are going to join Epic in the suit, It looks like the employee level would love to do the same as Apple but something has the leadership level want to keep Google out of this and just keep it business as usual.
My guess, they already know all the communications they had with Twitter to coordinate censorship and prefer not stir the bees nest right now.
Absolutely true. Google once approached Tencent to buy their stake in an effort to try and tank the company from the inside. They also tried to bribe AV companies to say that sideloading apps is dangerous and shouldn't be done, specifically to target Epic.
Saying that, pushing Tim Sweeney around is a bit different from pushing around Elon Musk.
Or one of those fake AVs that used to be a thing in the early 2010s. You know the type, the ones that say you have 100 viruses and you have to activate now.
Pretty sure there are enough woke tokes at google too. Difference is that on Android using a different store is trivial, and you can load apps directly as well. Had to do that for Telegram since the google version is gimped.
I go by the saying 'The enemy of my enemy might not be a friend, but I'll let him burn my enemy down while I prepare artillery'
If Epic wants to take on Apple, that's great even if I dislike both companies, Apple is the bigger target that if it can be made to bleed will MASSIVELY help us in the long run. Elon jumping on board to provide data on the twitter side to help the lawsuit and the Chinese protests probably stopping Foxconn production AND reports their workers are trying to leak IPhone data and schematics, damn it looks like Apple picked a fight they weren't ready for.
Shame Google aren't looking to get involved, seems they might have noped out and decided to disappear into the hedge like Homer while the firestorm is brewing.
Google wants to do the exact same thing as Apple. They're not going to weigh in on behalf of Epic if that's what you're saying.
No I don't mean they are going to join Epic in the suit, It looks like the employee level would love to do the same as Apple but something has the leadership level want to keep Google out of this and just keep it business as usual.
My guess, they already know all the communications they had with Twitter to coordinate censorship and prefer not stir the bees nest right now.
Absolutely true. Google once approached Tencent to buy their stake in an effort to try and tank the company from the inside. They also tried to bribe AV companies to say that sideloading apps is dangerous and shouldn't be done, specifically to target Epic.
Saying that, pushing Tim Sweeney around is a bit different from pushing around Elon Musk.
Or one of those fake AVs that used to be a thing in the early 2010s. You know the type, the ones that say you have 100 viruses and you have to activate now.
I would say that Tim Sweeney refused to be pushed around. He sued and let them ban Fortnite from the app store, right?
Pretty sure there are enough woke tokes at google too. Difference is that on Android using a different store is trivial, and you can load apps directly as well. Had to do that for Telegram since the google version is gimped.
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