Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
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Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
#2This clearly and unambiguously crosses the line into abuse of market power. Apple's actions before? Maybe? Sort of? Apple needed that 30 percent cut to monitor for fraud and quality or something, going above-and-beyond other payment processors.
This? This has absolutely no basis in anything. It's simple retaliation designed to kneecap Epic from Apple's dominant control of a market. Apple can refuse to let Epic release games, without stopping Epic's Apple development dead in its tracks. That accomplishes all reasonable business purposes.
Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
#3It's fascinating to see the replies to the tweets. It appears most people don't care. They just want their game to work.
A lesson in how your customers don't care about how your product is made.
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#4Epic's "trap" seemed terribly tonedeaf. This will not end well for them.
Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
#5This clearly and unambiguously crosses the line into abuse of market power. Apple's actions before? Maybe? Sort of? Apple needed that 30 percent cut to monitor for fraud and quality or something, going above-and-beyond other payment processors. This? This has absolutely no basis in anything. It's simple retaliation designed to kneecap Epic from Apple's dominant control of a market. Apple can refuse to let Epic releas…
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Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
#6This clearly and unambiguously crosses the line into abuse of market power. Apple's actions before? Maybe? Sort of? Apple needed that 30 percent cut to monitor for fraud and quality or something, going above-and-beyond other payment processors. This? This has absolutely no basis in anything. It's simple retaliation designed to kneecap Epic from Apple's dominant control of a market. Apple can refuse to let Epic releas…
This clearly and unambiguously crosses the line into abuse of market power.
Epic is taking them to court. What did they expect, a nice thank you and a pat on the head.
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#7Seems pretty straightforward to me.
If you sue me, and go out of your way to publically attack me, I'm not willing to do business with you until it's settled, if ever again.
Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
#8This clearly and unambiguously crosses the line into abuse of market power. Apple's actions before? Maybe? Sort of? Apple needed that 30 percent cut to monitor for fraud and quality or something, going above-and-beyond other payment processors. This? This has absolutely no basis in anything. It's simple retaliation designed to kneecap Epic from Apple's dominant control of a market. Apple can refuse to let Epic releas…
Companies shouldn't be allowed to fire customers that blatantly break rules the customer agreed to?
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#9I don’t have a side in this fight, but I do admire how Epic has clearly planned this out to wring every ounce of publicity and goodwill they can.
I don’t find this particular measure (shutting down the accounts) particularly sinister. Epic has made it abundantly clear they don’t like the App Store’s rules and regulations. That’s fine but it means you won’t be selling on the App Store. I see this as Apple taking them seriously on that point.
We are well past the point of negotiations here. And following from the planning point, there is zero chance Epic did not see this coming.
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#10So if the government doesn’t side with Epic or bail them out at this point are they done for?
Seems like Epic put everything on the line.