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Comment by mountainriver | Hacker News Reader

I may get rid of my iPhone, this is just horrible continued behavior on Apple’s part. Nothing can be worth the damage this is doing to their reputation

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I'd rather people dump Apple products over their anti-repair practices or the whole concept of locked-downd devices tied to monopolistic App Stores, rather than the Apple vs Epic vs EU fight.

This is an Apple vs. developers fight. Epic is just the one spending money on it.

I have been feeling the same way. Apple has been dropping the ball a lot lately. This whole malicious compliance thing they are doing with the EU is childish. Apple 100% should have lost the court case to Epic the same way Google did.

When your stock is traded like the stock of a company with a stranglehold on a huge market it can press seemingly at will, what can you do other than pressing?

Publicly traded companies are mercenaries bound to the highest bidder, nothing they can do about it.

What even is a phone in the future anyway.

apple cars, vr, losing out big time in china. cheerio tim time?

Tim Cook has overseen Apple's most profitable years - It makes and continues to make obscene piles of money. Why would the board or the shareholders vote him out?

If things go sideways, sure. But things haven't gone sideways. Day traders freak out about news stories, but the stock price has been a pretty solid to-the-right-and-up.

At least thanks to Unreal engine and their content in the PC space, Epic is big enough to survive this, but think of poor small indie devs who can have their revenue streams shut down at any time because $REASON and have no way of fighting back.

Apple needs to be brought down a peg or two.

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