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Apple Removes Fortnite From App Store [Update: Epic Files Lawsuit Against Apple]
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Tesla’s Autopilot is already regulated. Just not by the United States Federal Government
love it can’t wait to see how this all plays out. Hello EU. Where are you?
Fortnites skin bundles has gotten more expensive for less content, and they continue to reuse old skins and charge $15 to $20 bucks for this. The $10 dollar battle pass used to be worth it since you could buy the pass, save your v bucks from it for the next one, usually in 3 months. The new seasons have gone on for up to 6 months, encouraging kids to spend more money.
I’ve watched this. Kids bully other kids to buy the new hot skins. I’m Guessing my nephew has dropped at least $400 in fortnite skins over the last year. $10 dollars here, $20 there.
They know the game is going down hill, and this play was a way of drumming up headlines (and maybe more money) so that people will play again.
This isn’t them being the little guy (though compared to Apple everyone is).
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I hope that Netflix, all Google apps, Amazon video and kindle and all MS apps are updated to bypass Apple’s 30% BS fees. The consumer backlash against Tim Apple will be epic.
So it's cool to trick kids into stealing their parents' credit cards so they can spend $7.99 on imaginary in-game currency but Apple's 30% cut is "exorbitant"? Get the F off your high horse Epic.
When Steve Jobs first announced the App Store he said Apple didn’t intend to make money off of it. There’s no way Apple isn’t making money off of it now. But why does Apple have to make money off of it? Why can’t they run the App Store as break even? They have to know their devices would be a lot less valuable if they didn’t have 3rd party applications. I mean would you pay $1000 for an iPhone that only had 1st party Apple apps on it?
Whether you're on Apple's side or Epic's, you can't deny this mess is going to be a fun ride. 
Stuff like this is almost driving me to android... glad I lined hp’s pockets when I had to replace my MacBook pro
Total non-suit. They signed / agreed to the App Store policy. Nothing to sue over.
its not a high horse its all about choice. I can think of a few reasons to do so that are not strictly monetary.
Actually, we don't choose a walled garden as that's security through obscurity. We prefer a fully audited, reproducible builds, source code verification, dedicated auditing team, third party checks and verification, etc. Of course this goes off the point a little.
We aren't really asking for sideloaded apps though. The end consumer is charged too much in my opinion. There are other stores that do the exact same and are making so much money from it. We the consumer are funding this process.
This is the real issue at hand. It‘s not the 30% fee or the no custom payment processing rule, it‘s the exceptions Apple makes along the way.Your post is especially ironic given that Apple gave Amazon a prime deal for Prime, a 15% fee instead of 30% in order to get Amazon Prime into the Apple ecosystem.
Apple Halved App Store Fee to Get Amazon Prime Video on Devices
Apple Inc. agreed in 2016 to halve its App Store fee for Amazon.com Inc. as part of a deal to put the e-commerce giant’s Prime Video app on Apple’s mobile devices and TV set-top box.www.bloomberg.com
Special deals with app makers like amazon (lower cut and now even their own payment processing). Their whole „every app maker has to play by the same rules“ statement is riddled with plotholes.
What difference is this VS MacOS & Windows. 99% of all apps users use do not come from the Mac App Store or the Windows App Store. Either via the web or third party store. (Epic games store, origins, Steam). You are not forced to use the Windows store or Mac App Store. You have option to, but not required.
Completely different issue. This is about companies wanting their own appstores and getting your banking information instead of Apple.
Apple needs to figure out how to handle streaming games. Basically everything needs to happen on the backend server and you are just viewing a remote desktop/game. Game get published that's trying to break out of the sandbox? Can't on iPhone. Apple also needs to figure out how to advertise they don't have any responsibility for what happens with said services. Oh the game is killing JFK? Yeah that's 100% on Microsoft.
Apple will figure that part out. That's evolution of a new service that needs to establish itself like movie and music apps. It needs to play by the same rules and restrictions of the movie and music apps too.
What a colorful and descriptive, yet completely meaningless analogy
I came here to ask if there was a way to format/restore my iPad without losing the Fortnite IPA, if I can save the IPA file in the mac...
... And I just saw the update: Epic sues Apple *grabs popcorn 🍿
... And I just saw the update: Epic sues Apple *grabs popcorn 🍿
possibly that's why go the route of regulation to possible weaken such agreements legally because they are bull ****.
just like that whole price fixing over developers thing they got smacked about a few years ago such agreements were found unconstitutional.
I am sorry, but I am with Epic on this. As much as Apple is a great company, they are on the wrong side in this case. If the Feds are watching, this will just hasten App Store regulation.
Am I wrong? In what way could Apple justify their side of this lawsuit?
Am I wrong? In what way could Apple justify their side of this lawsuit?
While I agree with you, selling via third party is optional. You could in most cases go direct to the retailer. We the consumer/developer pay Apple to use the store (paid applications, or free) and then pay Apple for every in-game purchase. It's a bit much too be honest.
they could like i said b4 sue for breach of contract butt with the antitrust the court may invalidate such agreements
So because you can get hit with randsomware on Windows and MacOS you should be entitled to the same danger on your iPhone!
Yes that sounds like the right direction. Apple totally doesn't get bonus points for not having to deal with these things.
Microsoft and MacOS aren't both trying to close pandoras box with Windows 10 S, Windows 10 ARM, and the upcoming MacOS ARM.
Once again you want to free for all? Buy an Android and post your credit card number on Twitter to make it easier for all the companies to get your information.
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Only Apple customers can be happy to pay more than necessary. I suspect all the people here who are defending Apple are actually AAPL shareholders masquerading as Apple fans.