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

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Post by paulddraper »

ectospheno wrote: post #849
brikym wrote: post #845

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This is why I sold my APPL stock a few weeks back. The experience on iPhone is shit. The web is broken on Safari. They broke PWAs. The vision pro is not a big hit. The notification system on MacOS is a poor experience as it gets in my way all the time. Apple want to extort devs to build apps. The arm macbook chips are amazing but that's old news now. Too much abuse of their customers and not much innovation. It has s…

I love my iphone more than any other tech device I own. Can you elaborate on "The experience on iPhone is shit"? Seems like hyperbole to me.

While I wouldn't describe it as "shit"...

Android Camera > iOS Camera

Google Photos > iCloud Photos

Finger ID > Face ID

My gripe with Android is that no one offers the quality and form factor of the iPhone SE. (Though to be fair, even Apple no longer offers the quality and form factor of the iPhone SE...)

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Post by mptest »

OCASMv2 wrote: post #825
wkat4242 wrote: post #614

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> Yeah, its really weird to appeal to the noble intentions of a corporation. They're both just engaged in business. This is what's wrong with the current overly capitalist system. Companies are totally allowed to have no conscience, and externalise whatever they please to consumers and the environment. And you could even argue they are 'forced' to do so by due diligence legislation. If we let this continue there will…

Hard not to act as they do when its consumers happily reward them with their money.

If only there were someone, or some institution that could think more long term than mindless consumers. We could call it a Governing board or something!

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

hipadev23 wrote: post #934

We need some competition in the mobile/tablet space. Apple hardware and performance is incredible. Google is inept at best and getting worse.

> Google is inept at best and getting worse.

Hard disagree. I've used Pixel phones for years and they're generally great phones. Biggest previous complaint was their software upgrade support window was too short, but now they offer 7 years of upgrades.

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Post by hipadev23 »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #935
hipadev23 wrote: post #934

We need some competition in the mobile/tablet space. Apple hardware and performance is incredible. Google is inept at best and getting worse.

> Google is inept at best and getting worse. Hard disagree. I've used Pixel phones for years and they're generally great phones. Biggest previous complaint was their software upgrade support window was too short, but now they offer 7 years of upgrades.

Pixel phones imo are like gaming on linux. Yes it’s passable, yes it’s getting better, but if you’re fooling yourself if you think it’s comparable to gaming on Windows.

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Post by tailspin2019 »

> But Apple told Ars that Epic Games Sweden's access to a developer account was granted through a "click through" agreement that was not evaluated by Apple management.

I’ve never heard this type of argument before. Presumably Apple considered their “click through agreement” suitable for developers to “click through” and agree to.

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Post by throwaway2990 »

hipadev23 wrote: post #934

We need some competition in the mobile/tablet space. Apple hardware and performance is incredible. Google is inept at best and getting worse.

MS threw in the towel unfortunately. Now we are stuck with Apple and trash. People desperately cling onto this false ideology that Android is good and Apple is bad when they are at fault for ignoring Windows Phone which was better with their excuses that “I need thousands is fart apps or I can’t use windows phone”

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Post by throwaway2990 »

turboturbo wrote: post #807

Gruber has a good take on this: [1] > That Tim Sweeney tweet cited as an example doesn’t seem out of line to me. [...] Apple ought to stick to Epic’s deliberate breaking of the App Store rules with Fortnite back in 2020. It’s not even in dispute that they flagrantly broke the rules then. If Apple wants to make that a “lifetime” ban, they should just say so. > Citing recent tweets, like Sweeney’s, that are simply crit…

Na. Not a good take. Apple already said the reason was because they had revoked epics account for breaking rules and did so after being made aware of the account from Timmy boys tweets.

Anything else is just Timmy adding fuel to the fire which reinforces apples decision to not allow epic to have an account.

Timmy is desperately trying to become steam.

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Post by burnte »

hipadev23 wrote: post #936
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #935

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> Google is inept at best and getting worse. Hard disagree. I've used Pixel phones for years and they're generally great phones. Biggest previous complaint was their software upgrade support window was too short, but now they offer 7 years of upgrades.

Pixel phones imo are like gaming on linux. Yes it’s passable, yes it’s getting better, but if you’re fooling yourself if you think it’s comparable to gaming on Windows.

Pixels phones are some of the best Android phones on the market. Unlike gaming on Linux, Pixel phones run everything in the Android ecosystem quite well, as they are intended. If you're going to compare it to gaming on linux, then Pixel phones are the Steamdecks of that world;
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