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One thing that jumps out at me from this trial is how Apple absolutely leverages control of the App Store to further control app experiences - it has also pushed developers into adding payments, of which it takes a cut — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing that absolutely jumps out at me from this trial is how Apple absolutely leverages control of the App Store to further control app experiences - it has also pushed developers into adding payments, of which it takes a cut — PolitiTweet.org

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@pizzaemojinet Right now self-contained. If a decade from now the Supreme Court is like "what's a computer" my work here will be done — PolitiTweet.org

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All of this extremely fine parsing of definitions is the logical result of having inconsistently applied rules. You don't want game streaming apps, but you don't know how to keep that from hitting Roblox, so you just define Roblox as something else — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonhall This is why the notion of the iPhone being a general purpose computer keeps coming up, and why it is particularly messy that this Epic's lawsuit about a game — PolitiTweet.org

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(tweets but editable sigh) — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't know if Epic can or should win here -- it's pretty messy! But it is more abundantly clear than ever that Apple puts a lot of time into making every dollar that flows through the iPhone also flow through Apple. — PolitiTweet.org

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Epic vs Apple continues to reveal how deeply in the weeds of specific app functionality Apple will get when it suits its interests -- and that they have the levers to do it. https://t.co/6Nm4998cbs https://t.co/q53vDHqO5v — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thedextriarchy: can’t wait for Epic v. Apple biopic The Two Tims — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kellymakena: An NYAG investigation found that 18 out of the 22 million comments filed during the FCC's 2017 rollback of net neutrality… — PolitiTweet.org

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It is also true that a significant number of people in the early jailbreak scene… worked at Apple. So! — PolitiTweet.org

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See: https://t.co/FAfLId6Soo https://t.co/oMIgyP0POH — PolitiTweet.org

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This is strange because Apple encouraged developers to jailbreak iPhones and get a jump on app development before the official App Store launch, as several have confirmed — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thedextriarchy: Epic is calling Matt Fischer, VP of the App Store and our first Apple exec. — PolitiTweet.org

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@wayner99 @backlon @tomwarren Basically yes - but also we knew more and more of our work was being distributed through other people’s apps. I don’t think that is tenable for many other businesses — PolitiTweet.org

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As Day 4 of Epic v Apple kicks off, @backlon and @tomwarren dug into why web apps on the iPhone keep coming up — and why they are not competitive with native apps on iOS. https://t.co/Sk6yZM9tjg — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thedextriarchy: Day 4 of Epic v. Apple starts in 5 minutes! Expecting testimony from Epic business strategy exec Thomas Ko, then Apple… — PolitiTweet.org

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The Louisiana prison system seeks out doctors with suspended licenses to treat patients. An in-depth investigation from @AudioBlahBlah, who also helps me with Decoder research each week: https://t.co/97JDC4xlDf — PolitiTweet.org

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@peterpham Peter the tweet literally says single blind and so does the paper — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple here is wondering what else it can do to justify taking a 30 percent cut of Netflix signups on iOS. The only reasons it's doing that are 1. it knows it's not doing enough to keep Netflix from removing IAP and 2. it has the threat of Netflix app signups going down to rely on https://t.co/QEjBlGIQ5h — PolitiTweet.org

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I think anyone could look at this and fairly wonder why an operating system vendor is mucking around so deeply inside the business of a popular app https://t.co/e4pHVxHSye — PolitiTweet.org

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@doctorow @saurik It’s great. I am going to use it too much — PolitiTweet.org

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Keep thinking about a phrase I read in a @doctorow thread recently: “felony contempt of business model.” Seems so apt to describe the fights between tech companies and between tech companies and their users — PolitiTweet.org

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@jwleblan Here’s an explainer with a video from @russellbrandom https://t.co/WAQmW9N29R — PolitiTweet.org

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@jwleblan Sure. The argument is that Apple purposefully makes it very very hard to switch away from the iPhone with iMessage and other lock-in mechanisms, so the control over the app ecosystem gives them anticompetitive advantages expressed in various ways — PolitiTweet.org

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Is an iPhone more like a PC or an Xbox? ⁦@thedextriarchy⁩ recaps Epic v Apple day 3: https://t.co/xaTj71Sy5k — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZoeSchiffer: The NLRB reversed a Trump-era decision to dismiss allegations of unlawful termination & retaliation from 3 former Google w… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is so dead-on about the Facebook / Trump decision circus from @kait_tiffany https://t.co/yrNeuH2wnT — PolitiTweet.org

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@scottmichaud No one likes discovery and everyone knows most cases settle — PolitiTweet.org

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why do most cases settle, you ask — PolitiTweet.org