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Comment by Despegar | Hacker News Reader

Epic's antitrust case against Apple is very weak, but they're well within the right to sue Apple to resolve their dispute. The developer agreement actually stipulates the venue, Northern District of California, for any lawsuits. However, Epic demonstrated particularly bad faith in how they've dealt with this matter so I'm not surprised that Apple is terminating their relationship (which they're allowed to do under the terms of the developer agreement).

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Yes I also believe its a lousy case, but that what courts are for, to decide things. But Apple can easily point to all the times Epic agreed to the Agreement (my employer's large legal dept always reads any changes before agreeing), to the agreements Epic is fine with from the console companies paying the same percentage but did not sue, the long history of each and every clause in the agreement in the world of contract law (Apple has a billion lawyers I doubt they miss much).

Winning such a case based on complaining its an antitrust violation is rather quixotic and normally only a government would do this.

Maybe in the end both relent and the rate goes down, but I don't think Epic wants to pay anything and still be available.

I believe Epic's entire case revolves around phones being a general computing device, so they'll be using the Microsoft antitrust case law.

>I believe Epic's entire case revolves around phones being a general computing device

Legally this doesn't matter at all. It's just something for people to talk about on Twitter.

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