A group of French app developers that accused Apple of overcharging them to participate in its App Store have dropped their lawsuit in U.S. federal court after a judge last month gutted the case.
Reuters:
The plaintiffs, including Figaro news app developer Société du Figaro and Le Geste, an association of French publishers, said in a filing on Wednesday in California federal court that they were voluntarily dismissing their case.
A lawyer for the app developers, Steve Berman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, told Reuters that they planned to file an action against Apple in France.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland ruled last month that claims in the lawsuit based on foreign sales are barred “without exception.” The judge refused to allow the developers to amend their complaint.
MacDailyNews Take: It costs Apple a lot of money to run its App Store.
How much did it cost developers to have their apps burned onto CDs, boxed, shipped, displayed on store shelves prior to Apple remaking the world for the better for umpteenth time? Apple incurs costs to store, review, organize, surface, and distribute apps to over one billion users. — MacDailyNews, June 10, 2022
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What did it cost the USA to save those French behinds during World War II?
Frenchies: Don’t recriminate, innovate.
FFS. Another idiotic American who never fought on WWII and makes facile comments about how the involvement of American soldiers in Europe 80 years ago should dictate French competition policy or actions today.
Perhaps the fact that the French bailed out the Americans during their war with the British should mean that Americans ought to bend over and take some French c-ck.
True that. The USA wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the French. Doofus Dosomething must have a short memory.
The USA has a long tradition of starting wars and not winning them when they don’t have a coalition of allies helping them.
Washington fought as best he could but he was losing the American Revolution by degrees. Of the 9 major battles, he lost 6. Only when Lafayette petitioned, and France granted, significant military support did the coordinated American and French forces defeat the redcoats at Yorktown & Chesapeake. The USA can also thank foreigners Von Steuben (Prussian) and Pulaski (Polish) and many more for shaping up the Continental Army. The USA didn’t “win”, the allied forces won.
A generation later, Madison declared war on Britain, and the USA was soundly whipped in the naval battles of the War of 1812 because the French were not there to counter the British navy. In August 1814, British general Ross sailed to Washington DC and burned the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Washington Naval Yard. The British were fully engaged in the Napoleonic wars at the time, and therefore unwilling to commit more troop resources to the war with the USA. Thus the land battles were largely inconclusive. The Treaty of Ghent re-established peace without either side achieving much of anything. Had Napoleon not tied up the vast majority of British troops in continental Europe, it is extremely likely that this “second war of independence” would have resulted in the British squashing the USA and taking all of North America. Through ignorance and apathy, Americans today don’t thank Napoleon for that. The few people who have actually studied American History in depth know that, despite popular modern attitudes, the 1812-1815 conflict cannot be summed up in the Battle of New Orleans, which of course was a rare decisive victory for the good old US of A. It makes for good patriotic fervor-inducing propaganda.
Since 1945, even with overwhelming military power capable of touching every other nation, the USA has a poor military track record. It has many times injected itself into foreign conflicts or self-serving resource wars. On its own, the USA has seldom actually accomplishing lasting peace in all its foreign nation-building adventures. But that doesn’t stop self-proclaimed patriots from thumping their chests with jingoist attitude and unearned pride. They think ability to drop an atom bomb makes them strong. It doesn’t; the threat of mutual annihilation merely increases the risks of tragic ending for all sides in the next war.
Experts today openly question whether the USA could prevail in a war against its most significant current rival, China. With less than 25% of the population, debt up to its ears, and a fat lazy populace entirely reliant on cheap imported goods … the future isn’t looking great for the USA. The USA needs allies MORE THAN ANY TIME SINCE 1815. Sorry if that doesn’t align with the unsubstantiated bluster of our late orange fuhrer wannabe. Do yourself a favor, USA. Stop insulting your remaining friends in the world.