An overview of the most interesting internal emails from the Apple v. Epic trial, including discussions about an “iPhone nano” and lowering App Store fees
and we have questions Stephen Warwick / iMore : Apple's fraud chief knew it had a child porn problem, messages reveal Tweets: Sean Hollister / @starfire2258 : I wrote a thing. A thing where if you're a tech news or gaming news hound, you're going to want to dig in. I dug through every one of Apple's private emails and Epic's secret plans from the trial... and here are the 107 (!) things I learned. https://www.theverge.com/... Choire Sicha / @choire : Once again I am begging executives to simply use the telephone instead of putting their dastardly schemes in an email. https://www.theverge.com/...
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Discussion
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@starfire2258
Sean Hollister
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I wrote a thing. A thing where if you're a tech news or gaming news hound, you're going to want to dig in. I dug through every one of Apple's private emails and Epic's secret plans from the trial... and here are the 107 (!) things I learned. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@choire
Choire Sicha
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Once again I am begging executives to simply use the telephone instead of putting their dastardly schemes in an email. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@sophaskins
Cron Mom
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a lot of these are FASCINATING https://www.theverge.com/...
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@rustybrick
Barry Schwartz
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I'm sure plenty more to come like this https://twitter.com/...
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@karlbode
Karl Bode
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so not only was Google paying wireless carriers not to develop competing app stores (aka: pay them to do nothing), it was paying phone makers not to install competing app stores what incredible, unbridled innovation https://www.theverge.com/...
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@timsweeneyepic
Tim Sweeney
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It appears, sadly, that Google was indeed contemplating a coordinated, multinational hostile takeover attempt of Epic in response to Fortnite launching outside of Google Play. https://www.protocol.com/...
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@nickstatt
Nick Statt
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This is pretty stunning: Google tried to have docs detailing this sealed but a judge yesterday denied the order, so now we know a Google exec floated approaching Tencent about a hostile takeover of Epic. Here's the details. https://www.protocol.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@serkantoto
Dr. Serkan Toto
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This has been standard in the game industry for a long, long time: platform providers spending large sums of $ for exclusives, timed exclusives and similar deals. You can argue about the one or other specific sum, but this is a very normal part of the gaming business. https://twi…
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@modestproposal1
Modest Proposal
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Google willingness to act like a comic book caricature of an anticompetitive mega corporation is frankly to be applauded. That level of dgaf is rare in modern society. https://twitter.com/...
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@baseddrworm
@baseddrworm
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Thank you epic for the free money to small devs https://twitter.com/...
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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Google quietly paid game developers hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives to keep their games on the Play Store and avoid another Fortnite situation 🥴https://www.theverge.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...