Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
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Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#2Everyone that "declare war" on Apple either fades into obscurity soon after their 15 minutes of fame, or becomes Apple:
https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ki1rvt/samsung_began...
"Becoming Apple" in Facebook and Epic's case may mean their own app stores, and both of them are already sort of on their way there.
Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#3Everyone that "declare war" on Apple either fades into obscurity soon after their 15 minutes of fame, or becomes Apple: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ki1rvt/samsung_began... "Becoming Apple" in Facebook and Epic's case may mean their own app stores, and both of them are already sort of on their way there.
Epic Games appears to be still going strong, for better or for worse.
Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#4The idea of doing a public campaign over this is so myopic that I cannot fathom the thinking about it. Who’s going to rally for Facebook? Did they really expected Apple to change this?
The ad should scare investors much more than Apple’s move.
Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#5Everyone that "declare war" on Apple either fades into obscurity soon after their 15 minutes of fame, or becomes Apple: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ki1rvt/samsung_began... "Becoming Apple" in Facebook and Epic's case may mean their own app stores, and both of them are already sort of on their way there.
Epic Games appears to be still going strong, for better or for worse.
Too soon to tell.
Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#6Everyone that "declare war" on Apple either fades into obscurity soon after their 15 minutes of fame, or becomes Apple: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ki1rvt/samsung_began... "Becoming Apple" in Facebook and Epic's case may mean their own app stores, and both of them are already sort of on their way there.
Microsoft seems fine.
Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#7The article's thesis is that the free content model is dying, and FB needs to pivot to a paid one.
It may rather be that the content market is bifurcating, with "free" going toward the lower end mass market. Which FB seems perfectly positioned to serve.
Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#8Everyone that "declare war" on Apple either fades into obscurity soon after their 15 minutes of fame, or becomes Apple: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ki1rvt/samsung_began... "Becoming Apple" in Facebook and Epic's case may mean their own app stores, and both of them are already sort of on their way there.
Epic Games appears to be still going strong, for better or for worse.
Epic Games might be the exception that proves the rule.
Epic doesn't actually need Apple (they have a half-dozen much better ways to deliver their games, all of which better target + support their core revenue audience). Their Unreal Engine is popular with developers, but if they lost iOS device support and those mobile devs switched to Unity, most major games would still continue to use Unreal to target all the major platforms.
And similarly, Apple doesn't need Epic, their iOS consoles historically don't push any high end or involved gaming, so they don't cede any meaningful ground losing them. And Apple has a bajillion dollars, they could lose all game sale revenue / gaming IAP revenue tomorrow and barely even notice it.
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Best case scenario: Epic breaks Apple's monopoly and gets anti-trust regulation enforced upon Apple (something that really should have happened a decade ago).
Worst case scenario: Epic + Unreal is banned from Apple devices. Some mobile devs have to transition to Unity. Folks have to use the PC/Switch/PS4/Xbox most people already own anyway, to play Fortnite + other Unreal titles.
No matter which happens, everyone's better off.
Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Epic Games appears to be still going strong, for better or for worse.
Epic Games might be the exception that proves the rule. Epic doesn't actually need Apple (they have a half-dozen much better ways to deliver their games, all of which better target + support their core revenue audience). Their Unreal Engine is popular with developers, but if they lost iOS device support and those mobile devs switched to Unity, most major games would still continue to use Unreal to target all the majo…
IMO, iOS/tvOS gaming has a bigger risk of stealing some of Nintendo's revenue stream, than it does hurting anything more intense.
Re: Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
#10another end of the world blah blah blah article. The truth is both are still doing extremely good and FB for sure will not end here. On top of this im extremely disappointed that Apple has the power to take these measures and regulate other companies within their Walled garden. What is US and World identities doing ? Why does it need to be another company with a Monopoly to regulate other ?