• JWBananas
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    4410 months ago

    Holy moly!

    “If we don’t have Spotify working properly across Play services and core services, people will not buy Android phones,” Harrison testified.

    Google: Sorry, other devs! You just aren’t as important as Spotify!

    [I mean, they aren’t wrong. But this does not bode well for them!]

    • Carighan Maconar
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      610 months ago

      I mean, they could also say “Epic is just trash compared to Spotify as far as value to have on your platform goes” and I couldn’t really fault them for that.

      I don’t think it causes issues for them specifically though. I bet they offered Epic deals, Epic just didn’t want them. If anything they could point to a few recipients of such deals and go “But look, we’re doing this, we just won’t do a deal with Tim Sweeney because well, who in their right mind would?”.