Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
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Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#2The Verge has a statement from apple: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366438/apple-fortnite-i...
Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#3[insert michael jackson popcorn meme]
Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#4Really hoping regulators crack down hard on Apple's clearly anticompetitive practices.
If Apple allowed sideloading the entire point would be, of course, moot, but Apple's continued refusal to allow this is really the biggest problem, IMO.
Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#5This is not surprising to me, and I have to say, I completely agree with it. Epic publicly and blatantly bypassed multiple App Store restrictions with their move today.
Surely they were expecting this to happen, so what comes next? Perhaps Epic has been planning a major lawsuit and this will provide them with the reason to launch it?
Edit: https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1293984290326433792
They have an entire short prepared for this. This is nothing if not fascinating deep-level company poker.
Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#6Really hoping regulators crack down hard on Apple's clearly anticompetitive practices. If Apple allowed sideloading the entire point would be, of course, moot, but Apple's continued refusal to allow this is really the biggest problem, IMO.
well they do allow that, users have to reinstall every week though.
Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#7How is the apple app store not the definition of a monopoly? Is there an competing app store on iphones that Epic could be using?
Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#8Fortnite of course expected this: seems like they’ve prepared a short video mocking Apple’s old super bowl ad 1984 to premiere in an hour https://twitter.com/fortnitegame/status/1293984290326433792?...
Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#9Lmao
Re: Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
#10Really hoping regulators crack down hard on Apple's clearly anticompetitive practices. If Apple allowed sideloading the entire point would be, of course, moot, but Apple's continued refusal to allow this is really the biggest problem, IMO.
well they do allow that, users have to reinstall every week though.
I'm not sure I'd qualify that as "allowing" -- seems like more of a loophole to me.