Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

Post by ben_w » Wed, Mar 06, 2024, 7:17 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #107

benced wrote: post #73

Even setting aside the dubious morality of Apple's rules on iOS, I feel like I'm going insane watching Apple be maximally aggressive. The EU loves regulating! There's nothing they love more! It seems supremely unwise to give them additional excuses to do something they clearly want to do anyways.

Having worked for many bosses, never ever never undersestimate the power of ego of an executive. It's only second to the ego of a lawyer. Many of them will tank their company and their client if they get their ego bruised and feel publicly humiliated. Those are hyper competitive people which see live as zero sum game and are trained in life to never, ever, lose a challenge or competition for domination. ESPECIALLY in…

Post by Findeton » Wed, Mar 06, 2024, 7:17 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #299

chatmasta wrote: post #262

> According to Epic, Apple reportedly told the company that it’s “a threat to their ecosystem.” Note they're not saying Epic is a security threat or has a product that endangers Apple customers. Instead, they're calling Epic, the company itself, a threat to Apple's ecosystem . This quote makes sense, if you replace "ecosystem" with "monopoly."

I think it is to make Epic out to be the villain. At the same time: > This quote makes sense, if you replace "ecosystem" with "monopoly." In the US, iPhone has a 57.93% market share. As of 2023, Android has a 70.29% global market share.

Post by drooopy » Wed, Mar 06, 2024, 7:17 PM UTC

k33n wrote: post #43

Apple should get out of the European market entirely. Their product offering is literally incompatible with the laws that govern EU commerce. There's plenty of money to be made in Asia/Pacific and the Americas. Apple's walled-garden approach is innovative especially on the security and stability fronts and anyone who doesn't like that or wants alternative launchers should jailbreak their ios device or just use Androi…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 06, 2024, 7:17 PM UTC

realusername wrote: post #309

That hot tempered decision will cost them a lot of money. They were already in a bad situation for essentially making the alternative stores worthless but cutting off Epic over a few tweets will further cement the idea that there's a competition problem going on here, this is also directly contradicting the DMA.

Post by summerlight » Wed, Mar 06, 2024, 7:18 PM UTC

ergonaught wrote: post #102

hellcow wrote: post #83

Clearly the recent 1.8B Euro fine the EU levied against Apple didn't send a message. Perhaps the EU needs to ratchet it up by an order of magnitude.

More likely, Apple needs to withdraw entirely from the EU and see what happens.