• @dtrain@lemmy.world
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    668 months ago

    That’s called “ retaliation” and Apple would have to be pretty fucking stupid to do that to the prosecutors at any point, let alone in the middle of a dep.

    • @masterspace@lemmy.ca
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      198 months ago

      Apple would have to pretty fucking stupid to openly retaliate against Epic for criticizing their DMA plan but here we are.

      • @AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Commiting felonies to antagonize a DOJ lawyer personally would be a whole different level of stupid.

        • halva
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          -48 months ago

          well, it wouldn’t be a felony, they don’t own their apple id lmao

          but it certainly wouldn’t impress neither the prosecution, nor the judge

            • @AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
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              28 months ago

              NAL, but it would likely be enough for a felony obstruction of justice charge. Add to that, depending on specifics of Apple’s legal response (and whether they throw the employee under the bus,) a CPAA charge for exceeding authorized access in a computer system.

      • @HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip
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        108 months ago

        So this wasn’t exactly retaliation. The first approval epic got this year was from an automated system. Once they got the approval they assumed (very understandably) that apple was okay with them establishing their store within the new guidelines, so they announced their plans publicly. They also continued to diss apple on Twitter of course. Hearing the announcement, Apple execs decided to ban them again because they didn’t adhere to the rules last time.

        This however completely looked like retaliation from apple’s side, so the DMA lawyers started an investigation and Apple had to re-allow epic again.

        Wether it’s apple’s fault for having the shitty automated system or not, doesn’t really matter though. I just hope we get proper sideloading by the end of the process.

        • @masterspace@lemmy.ca
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          No, this was exactly retaliation. Phil Schiller explicitly said in emails that they were removing Epic’s Switzerland’s account because they couldn’t trust them because of how critical their recent comments about the DMA plan were.

        • @masterspace@lemmy.ca
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          8 months ago

          So? That doesn’t change how stupid it was to publicly retaliate against them, and explicitly write out that you were punishing them for their criticism. The point is that Apple execs are as dumb as your average person, just greedier.

          • bane_killgrind
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            88 months ago

            Yeah it does… Epic doesn’t have a big stick like the whole court system to punish Apple.

            The prosecutor does.