With Epic v Apple legal fiasco underway, I revisited some of my Twitter rants. Shocking nobody, Andrew Grant (Epic) has admitted that they intentionally & dishonestly added a feature that Apple prohibited. I wrote a whole thread about why it would come up in the lawsuit. It did. https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/1299040683253272577

In this thread, I opine on how I figured Epic was seeding their store. Though it was obvious to anyone with a pulse, some people didn't accept it as fact. The lawsuit has proven this with the leaked rev financials from the lawsuit. https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/1299707473348173826

This thread is particularly poignant now given the lawsuit revelations; notwithstanding the fact that Tim Cook didn't even *know* who Tim Sweeney was. Until he breached his ToS and sued his company. https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/1310945959111729154

In this thread, I explained why I don't believe that Epic is going to win. I still don't. What has happened though is that the lawsuit has exposed some of the seedy underbelly parts of the industry that most of us have waded through for years. It's worse. https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/1296131730575851520

The videogame industry is one huge cesspool of fickle 'friendships', widespread misogyny, abject racism (yes, that's totally a thing), loyalties that probably won't survive a lunch meet, and sword wielding backstabbing pricks who have NO business being IN it - but for the money.

The most important aspect is that most of the people in the top echelon care more about who is going to get screwed in the pursuit of more money than in the pursuit of what's right, equitable, fair, and just. It's a vicious cycle that's gone on for as long as my 30+ yr tenure.

I can count on *one* hand the number of people who I would put any level of implicit trust in. Considering how many people I know, that's as bad as it sounds. At the end of the day, all you can do is keep your head down, tow the line, don't make ripples that end up down stream.