exaactly digital ownership will need to be reworked so that people can OWN again. Like with sony if they ban ur account which is within their right u lose access to YOUR PAID software. dosnt matter if its a mistake its gone. Like groove music!
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Apple Removes Fortnite From App Store [Update: Epic Files Lawsuit Against Apple]
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ikr - you don’t have to develop for that platform. I don’t get why some iOS devs seem to be shackled into this mindset.
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how dare they run their own store how they want. 🤣
Epic is going to lose their lawsuit. They blatantly violated their terms of service agreement with Apple’s App Store, and their only excuse is that they don’t like the terms they agreed to a decade ago. Epic fail.
It is up to the consumer if they want to pay for microtransactions, what epic have done here is prove that if the consumer does want to pay for microtransactions then Apples app store policies is forcing the consumer to pay more for those transactions than they would otherwise pay if they could pay the maker directly. BTW there is nothing inherently wrong with microtransactions, the customer has the choice of buying extras by microtransaction or not.
Apple should just create a paid developer tier for the cry babies where they are charged for advertising, bandwidth and server storage and charge them for their use. Fortnite was distributing a hefty sized file for free on Apples servers and bandwidth and they have a cheek to moan about a % going to Apple.
PUHHHHLEASE. Charging $20 for a graphical "skin" harms the consumer too.
lawsuit that was fast.
This is definitely a planned coup of the App Store by software developers (mostly the big ones).
the argument for vendors like Epic (trying to be so with this news no doubt) will be to day there was a reason to first agree to the policy binding contract and use apples tools and destruction system yet feel they should NOT have to pay for that distribution and monitoring to Apple. Moreover the court I’m sure will somehow hear Epic loosing fees for the cost when their sales numbers skyrocketed through the roof on a successful platform during a pandemic.
this isn’t just greed.
this isn’t just a battle to not pay for a smartphone we store front.
this isn’t to go against curation of na App Store.
This is by all counts a push to go against app stores and delivery systems entirely - to release control there of.
yes Google no longer charges a fee - yet at what cost to the vendor and the end users on their devices that is no so obvious. Many argue that any “potential” harm of personal security or virii is not enough to shun them away. I call it digital pimping of their personal data lol.
one potential debate or thought to any abatement of smartphone or laptop app stores is ... whom will keep up a collection of apps on a central website for end users to download from?
going from vendor to vendor on the completed has lasted decades and makes sense. The PC platform in no way has as many applications installed per user (business or consumer) as their smartphones. I’d wager this is demographically scaled from 12:40yrs of age, then evens out thereafter.
apples to oranges comparison again. u dont own fortnight you can Buy an instance but now own it apple owns the store which is true but u have bought the hardware they telling u what you can and cannnot have on such hardware will not stand its an ownership issue. One we will have to face. say I die and I want to will my purchesed content to my daughter this becomes a whole haslle because eulas state you may not have been able to do that which woould require actually legilslation to say hold up u dont have the athoritiy to make such agreements stand in a court of law
Two sides of the same coin. If anything, more popular apps should be pay Apple more than 30%. Small apps need more revenue to grow than large ones. Instead Apple rewards success by charging the same percentage.
This is why media shouldn’t be writing about an issue they don’t understand. 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
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Epic needs to realize if Apple didn't charge, then effectively Apple would be hosting other people's businesses for free. That doesn't seem fair to me. I know people poo poo the App Store, but it is still HANDS DOWN the best option for any developer to release a product that gets seen and used. Many of these little companies or homegrown developers wouldn't make any money if Apple didn't provide such a great space and ecosystem to thrive. Before the App Store, they would have to package their app, find distributors, market and make 1/5 of what they can now. There are other app ecosystems. If you want to do business in a market, it costs you. This is the cost to do business in the IOS Market.
You know, could do that. If it happened, I think some of that would fall on EPIC(fail).
They agreed to Apple’s terms when wanting to use Apple to grow their game but now doesn’t want too anymore. Kinda hard to argue monopoly when there are other operating systems. Apple built something successful and now others want in at their own terms and screaming injustice. Should we sue fortnite for charging too much or I can’t buy their in app products elsewhere.
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What is Epic's argument going to be here?
"A merchant said we had to abide by their policies to sell in their space, so we did. One day we decided not to, and they took down our app. What gives?"
"A merchant said we had to abide by their policies to sell in their space, so we did. One day we decided not to, and they took down our app. What gives?"
Ok devil's advocate here. if true, then why does dev need to rip off people for these pack upgrades for $8 then regardless? For tiny upgrades to the game. Why not $3.99 or $4.99?
Maybe THAT should be regulated that you cant charge $x for a tiny pack of visual updates for your character etc to begin with. If it was a reasonable price for what you get, there would be money for all in it and still be reasonably prices to the consumer without the consumer charged $9.99
If you want some government regulation of some monetary conduct, then that logic follows. It begins a slippery slope.
Of course. Steve Jobs spoke about this way back then. If there’s an app with hidden malicious code, Apple can hit a kill switch to disable that app across the entire ecosystem. As far as we know, they’ve never used it and this doesn’t seem like a circumstance in which they will.
im thinking stored anywhere and verified blockchain purchese but that way far away right now.