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A decade after its launch, the Mac App Store failed to replicate the success of the iOS version, but it did make finding and downloading apps faster and more convenient for macOS users. The original Mac App Store Within limits, you can install any macOS app on your Mac, wherever you got it from. And as successful as the Mac is, nothing comes close to being the hit that the iPhone has been. So it was never going to be possible to have a Mac App Store become the home for hundreds of thousands of apps. Still, on January 6, 2011, the Mac App Store opened with 1,000 apps. Accor...

by Max Maxfield As you may imagine, I receive an eye-watering number of emails each and every day. To give you an idea as to the size of the problem: as I pen these words, this is my first day back at work following a four-day break for the Christmas Holiday weekend. I got up at 6:00 a.m. this morning and came straight to my office. I ate lunch at my desk. It turned 3:30 p.m. a few minutes ago. I’ve only now finished wading through the emails that came in over the weekend and just now started writing this column.

In an effort to make Epic's case fail under the Ninth Circuit's FTC v. Qualcomm opinion (which for the time being, and possibly for a very long time to come, constitutes controlling law in the Ninth Circuit, now that the FTC's petition for an en banc rehearing has been denied), Google argues that Epic actually alleges Google has an antitrust duty to deal, but attempts an end-run around the high hurdle for such a duty by seemingly relying on other theories: Google says Epic has no Sherman Act Section 1 case based on Google's app distribution agreements with developers as Section 1 applies on...