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silexia
Apple and Google both have become extremely abusive in their monopoly positions. I am a libertarian, as well as a free market CEO and founder... But I do think something needs to be done. I used to believe that the free market would provide solutions, but I don't think that's possible when companies abuse the patent system to prevent new competition from entering the market. Google and Apple both have amassed huge patent portfolios and use their market power and legal power to stop competition.
1cvmask
The corrupt patent system is designed to entrench monopolies and prevent competition from the small guy.
silexia
Exactly! Patents severely harm innovation by preventing iteration on an idea and competition by directly limiting it.
Althuns
You would hope the judge would see through the bad faith and order accordingly. It's wild how okay the judicial system is with being used to abuse.
spacedcowboy
As far as I know, she affirmed that not only could Apple do this, but could also (at its discretion) remove other Epic developer accounts as well - now that the verdict is in.
Arnt
The legal system basically believes in itself, and trusts that its own rules are well-considered.

If the other party has 90 days to respond to something you say or do, that's because people have discussed how long is reasonable in this class of situation, and decided on 90 days as a a reasonable threshold. One party benefits if the deadline is short so the other doesn't have much time to respond, the other benefits if it has more time. Someone has thought about it and decided on fair rules. Acting by the rules is not seen as abuse because the rules have been carefully considered, see?

Not acting on a verdict until it's final is regarded as acceptable because the meaning of "final" is that now you have to act on it. Again, carefully considered.

rvz
Epic dug themselves into a deeper hole and forgot that Apple is still well within their right to keep them off the App store until further notice.

What they thought was 90 days will now take them years. They have just made matters worse for themselves.

Whatever happens, Apple still wins.