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Epic Games Sends Emails to Fortnite Players Blaming Apple for New Season's Unavailability
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This day and time you've got entire families that have nothing but Apple devices. The iPhone and iPad are more than good enough for many people's needs, and they simply don't need a PC or a game console. If students need more then many schools are issuing locked down laptops. An iOS device could easily be all they have to play on.
No, you cant't.
Apple is able to force all developer to use their store and most developers to use their payment methods. Which means I can get all apps from one store and pay most of it using Apple even if the developer don't want to.
With your system I would sometimes have to choose between getting an app or using additional stores and payment methods more often.
Yes I hope they do.
Btw. I have nothing against pubescent kids, we all had that age once, and they does not worth less than a grown up.
It is not a jail but a walled garden. Have you been to London? A walled garden is a nice place which people are paying extra to gain access.
And if you are in the Apple walled garden they even have made arrangement for traveling outside the garden. Something they call going on a Safari.
If you really dislike the garden you are also able to move permanently out to some horrendous part of the city.
I think epic went in knowing they'd lose this one lawsuit, but in the meantime think about how much they've influenced other companies.
Take the recent Facebook rejection for example, the one where they wanted to put a message saying Apple takes 30% of this purchase.
On Android they're giving small businesses that feature without any fees, on Apple they're forced to give them 30% of the 100% that would've otherwise gone to the small business.
The 30% fee has been part of their business for 10 years, people are just jumping on the bandwagon hoping that the government will knock apple down a bit so they can take advantage, in epic's case their own apple store so they can make more money, in FBs case open up iOS so they cant track users more. None of this will benefit consumers or small developers, it will only benefit other billion dollar companiesI wasn’t implying all the useful services they offer are a bad thing, just over emphasizing services lately over computer centric products is injecting all this trouble for them.
As if Apples cares for PUBG, they would walk over dead bodies, if needed.
Safari is nothing like what you can provide with a native application and Apple chooses not to implement web standards that would make native apps less appealing...
With MS Edge, Chrome, and Firefox it's possible to make web apps that can 100% compete with a native app, not so much with Safari.
Sony and google also take their cut from disk sales. There is no way to avoid paying them. Of course this is not the case on the PC
It’s all part of their plan, I bet there exist even a huge diagram they follow, about how and where to lock-in, to gain advantage over others.
If sideloading was added, you'd also be able to install apps that Apple chooses to not allow on the App Store.
If apple is so evil why dont you hurry up with that Android phone purchase you said you was researching a few days ago and go be free from apples evil ways? If you sell you iPhone the upgrade shouldn't cost you a lot
The same company that currently is taking games away from Steam.
Rocket League is going to be an Epic Store exclusive and going free-to-play with the people who bought it on steam getting some free currency and the privilege to still play it on steam (for now I'm sure)
And who you think people will wind to when this goes wrong or their data gets stolen. 1 guess apple because they built the phone
Btw. iOS is so secure... thats why Apple does not even care for security fixes:
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dude I think you might find this article helpfulBtw. iOS is so secure... thats why Apple does not even care for security fixes:
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Aside from taking 30% of sales of an imaginary currency, they aren't... at least not to epic...
Now they're definitely being anti-competitive and anti-consumer with other services like xCloud, Stadia, Geforce Now, and any other game streaming service that pops up because they don't get to review all the games on those services.
The thing that annoys me is that they don't seem to care about reviewing all of the content on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, or any of the other streaming services, so why do they insist on doing it for xCloud?
And yes, Netflix has interactive content, so they can't use that argument... they also can't say that xCloud, Stadia, or Geforce Now run game code from outside of the app because they don't, they stream 100% of the data.
Now we have another reaction starting is this rubbing salt into EPIC's face?
Apple features Fortnite competitor PUBG in App Store on same day it will terminate Epic’s developer account - 9 to 5
You notice in your image that "a Tencent Games Studio" is plainly visible.
Thanks for the link I appreciate...dude I think you might find this article helpful
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Yes I’m currently researching for alternatives to this iP11ProMax256 I got a while back...
I used Apple stuff for approx. 20 years (not only), but I’m not married with Apple.
If something else better comes out in few years, I move on again.
Being flexible is one of my top priorities... I have no benefit from being a die hard fanboy... would be just a disadvantage...
Maybe Epic should sell these through the game using Apple Pay as the payment method... sell the card for face value and send it through the mail, and also give an instant digital bonus of 20%
The storm circle is closing in on Epic.
People who buy iPhones have more money. And they have no problem spending it on nonessential things (otherwise they would buy ****** Android devices that get the job done). It's really simple.
Authoritative citation please.
People on iOS spend more on real-world goods too. As you know, Apple doesn't control these payments, so trust certainly plays no role there, everything goes through the same PSPs on all platforms. But again, because people on iOS are generally well-off, they don't mind paying a bit more for everything, including online groceries, more expensive products on Amazon, Hello Fresh subscriptions etc.
Authoritative citation please.
Per the rules, facts have to be backed up with citations. You made two broad claims that should be easy to verify.