Yeah, Epic just won’t share the revenue. And when Apple took Fortnite of their devices, Epic lost a lot of revenue. If they just shared a little bit of revenue with Apple, that would still have more revenue and more people playing.
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Get an android if you are really worried about that. But I challenge you to show when Tim Apple has randomly pulled a dev's certificate in such a fashion it amounts to a pervasive pattern.
That's not what Sun Tzu said. He said when you are at your weakest you project you are the stronger and fight with everything you have left. When you are the strongest, you show restraint, compassion and patience.
That's true, but that's one of the reasons hat you as a developer pay. Apple put a lot of time, effort and money into developing the tools that they offer to the developers.
I won’t actually, as I have made my case numerous times.
For one, app prices are not going to drop, so I would still be paying the same price regardless of whether developers are paying Apple that 30% or not.
Second, I don’t actually dislike walled ecosystems, not least because this gives Apple leverage in getting app developers to support features that would be beneficial to me as a consumer, such as Sign In with Apple, or the upcoming option to disable tracking.
Allowing apps to be made available from elsewhere gives developers a way of circumventing this. It would actually be giving me fewer options, not more.
Third, the option to sideload apps is part of the reason why piracy is so rampant on android, which in turn leads to developers often releasing apps for iOS first or exclusively because that’s where the money is.
There’s a reason why I am an iOS user and not Android. The open nature of android doesn’t give me more of what I want. It simply saddles me with more issues that I have to contend with.
I know what you're trying to say here... but there's no loot boxes in Epic's games. And they specifically took them out of Rocket League when they bought that company. No gambling, you know precisely what you're buying if you partake in the microtransaction.
I will agree that it will do that, but I think that the percentage of people that are heavily into the apps developers like Epic and gaming are a very small percentage of the 10's, maybe 100's of millions of iOS devices sold......I can be wrong.
And the existence of said microtransactions hasn't affected the design of those games in the least, right? I'm old enough to remember when you paid for games once and there was no grinding except in very specific genres. I can't even call what Epic puts out now a "game".
Apple developed iPhone and grew it into an ecosystem of over 1.5 Billion devices. They are well within their rights to charge developers whatever they please for the privilege of accessing that user base and monetizing it. Epic doesn’t have to ship their products on iOS if they don’t like the terms. It’s as simple as that.
V-bucks can be purchased on a different device and then used on mobile to purchase game assets. Yet, prior to breaking store ToS last year Epic charged the same on all platforms. It is only after the PR drama that they instituted lower rate on other platforms.
Epic could have filed anti-trust lawsuit without breaking store ToS. For some reason they chose the idiotic route of getting blocked from the store for breaking ToS. The court already pointed out they have no sympathy for that stunt.
No we won’t. As a consumer and a developer, I am happy to pay apple 15-30% in order to maintain the ios security model.
Still, the NON-Game portion of the iOS App Store has room for significant improvement.
Case in point, why are there NO filters for search AND/OR Settings Controls for the App Store App's "Today" tab ?
For example, ONLY include apps that have been updated in the past 30 days OR so.
It's time for the U.S. Gov't, my U.S. Gov't, to force AAPL to spin-off the NON-Game portion of the App Store into a Public Utility, taking a 1% cut for transactions.
Case in point, why are there NO filters for search AND/OR Settings Controls for the App Store App's "Today" tab ?
For example, ONLY include apps that have been updated in the past 30 days OR so.
It's time for the U.S. Gov't, my U.S. Gov't, to force AAPL to spin-off the NON-Game portion of the App Store into a Public Utility, taking a 1% cut for transactions.
I think that type of conduct by the US Government wouldn't go over well with SCOTUS. (but what do I know, I'm only an armchair lawyer here on MR)
LOL. I want your lawn. Time for the government to take it away from you and give it to me.
It's purely cosmetic, so no - no impact on the design. They're capitalizing on pop culture. But yeah, I also yearn for a return to paying for games instead of "free*". Because that asterisk is expensive.
Sure if people were rational. And then Bezos would not have lost the most money in history via divorce. Politicians wouldn’t act like stupid children non stop. Powerful CEOs may not have someone to tell them it’s a bad idea, group think takes over. Who knows.
Fortnite has lasted longer than I would have expected but it’s going to go out of fashion eventually just like all video games. I hope they don’t break the App Store for their 15 minutes of fame to last a little longer and make a little more money.
This is the most hyperbolic thing I have read on the internet in awhile and I read YouTube comments. Wow that is some crazy talk.
Technically this is true... up to a point. However any web developer worth their salt knows full well that Apple have gone out of their way to make building web apps as problematic as possible.
Firstly they refused to conform to "common standards" as you put it for progressive web applications (which every other device maker readily abides by) and instead uses proprietary meta tags instead of the approved JSON manifest format. No big deal on the surface I guess but when you throw into that Apples outright refusal to implement several JavaScript API's because they would give web apps capabilities that native apps have (and thereby drive traffic away from the store potentially) and also their refusal to correctly follow the ServiceWorker standard agreed upon by the W3C which means web apps can't cache correctly or work offline properly then all you end up with on Apple devices is a webpage that looks like an app - not a web app.
At present there are only three active browser engines:
Blink which powers Chromium, Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc - Supports the most web standards and is actively worked on by Google, Microsoft, Opera, and many others.
Gecko which powers Firefox - Supports most web standards and is worked on by Mozilla who are lagging a bit and had to fire a number of their employees recently (unfortunately).
Webkit which powers Safari - Supports the least web standards and is worked on by Apple when they feel like it.
In summary: Safari is the worst browser in terms of implementation of web standards, and for use for web applications by a long shot, it's become the new Internet Explorer.
Regards,
A web developer of 20+ years who's contributed to the web standards bodies he's currently moaning at Apple for not complying with in this post.
PS: I thought I'd just throw in this edit to point out I'm not either for or against opening the app store up for side loading, I would just like Apple to stop violating web standards, and quit pretending like their browser is anything but dragging it's feet - especially on iOS where you can change the default but NOT the rendering engine behind the eye candy.
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Tim Sweeney is a megalomaniacal edgelord alt-right douchebag. He's so far up his own ass that he's probably convinced himself that he really is fighting for "freedom" and "liberty."
Looks like Epic conspired to launch a virtual currency as a payment system and/or a pyramid scheme just like Kik and Facebook tried and Signal is trying now.
These companies like Epic/Facebook try to become a government over people. They issue illegal securities and call them ‘currencies’ because they think it bypasses financial regulations.
If you use their currency you become their slave. No company should be allowed such power. Only elected and accountable governments should issue currencies. But these insanely deranged CEOs want to bring down governments and make themselves 12th century style oligarchs.
These companies like Epic/Facebook try to become a government over people. They issue illegal securities and call them ‘currencies’ because they think it bypasses financial regulations.
If you use their currency you become their slave. No company should be allowed such power. Only elected and accountable governments should issue currencies. But these insanely deranged CEOs want to bring down governments and make themselves 12th century style oligarchs.