Gotcha! To me you made it seem like we'd see some innovations in games now that multiple stores will be available. I see that you hope games store will be able to host games with morally questionable content. Well, good news on that front EPIC Games defiantly does that.
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Really there's not much in that list that 99.999% of people would have an issue with.
There are plenty of other avenues to obtain or engage in anything listed there via web browsers on phones or PCs.
You dont need an app to do it.
An all Apple is doing is stopping a lot of things that would get a dev in trouble with local laws.
That is all very true, but in this case one cellphone company took another technology from another cellphone!
Terms have to comply with the law, even apple’s terms. People aren’t acting like babies, regulators and judges are doing their work.
No, I want to see some innovation in store functionality, as the iOS AppStore have practically stagnated the last 10 years.
And Games are stories and apples moral rules are Childish, considering the bellow games that was prevented.
You think these games are morally questionable?
1. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Platforms Published: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
• Reason for iOS Rejection: Depictions of violence towards children and religious themes.
2. Papers, Please
• Platforms Published: PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch
• Reason for iOS Rejection: Depiction of nudity.
3. South Park: Phone Destroyer
• Platforms Published: PC (for other South Park games), Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch
• Reason for iOS Delays/Temporary Rejection: Offensive content and crude humor.
4. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
• Platforms Published: Nintendo DS, PSP, PlayStation, Xbox, PC
• Reason for Initial Rejection: Drug-related content.
5. Surgeon Simulator
• Platforms Published: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
• Reason for iOS Rejection: Excessive violence and graphic content.
6. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
• Platforms Published: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
• Reason for iOS Delays/Rejections: War-related violence.
Well would you agree with Disney’s TOS?
His wife is kind of childish wouldn’t you say, he should have signed that ToS
The reason it says Piccolo must be compelled to arbitrate? A clause in the terms and conditions he signed off on when he created a Disney+ account for a monthlong trial in 2019.
Disney says man can't sue over wife's death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service
Disney says man can't sue over wife's death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service
Jeffrey J. Piccolo filed a wrongful death lawsuit after his wife, Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan, died after she consumed food containing allergens at a restaurant in Disney World.
www.nbcnews.com
There's been a few world wars, dozens of U.S. military bases and nuclear weapons as evidence to the contrary.
Then perhaps you should stop purchasing superior European technology and develop your own
The issue is Apple is marketing the iPhone as a gaming device and when developers do want to release narratively groundbreaking content, Apple starts clutching their pearls and get morally panic over trivial things.
Well just look at the list of games below.
Nothing is going to get developers in trouble, it’s just pearl clutching
Well imagine this radical notion. You can buy an EU iPhone that allows you to side load, or you buy a U.S iPhone that is locked down.
Just like if you want an iPhone with two Esims you buy it from USA, if you want it with an ESIM and Sim, then you buy from EU. And if you want double SIM functionality you buy from Hongkong/ China.
Perfect consumer choice. Just like when Apple released the Apple Watch with EKG/ECG 2018 in USA but not in EU until 2019, I just went to USA and bought it instead so I got EKG early.
Why can’t we do this for 3rd party installation capacity?
How about Apple sell you an iPhone without any OS installed and you find a way to load whatever you want?
They allow you to install something other than iOS but you miss out on iOS.
That would meet your needs, surely?
You own the hardware. And can do whatever you like with it.
6 games? that's it?
that you can get elsewhere?
there are plenty of platform exclusive titles. Surely your next step is demand a game vendor make a version for every hardware device that could play them...
And those of us who feared fragmentation in which apps would not be available on the App Store was right.
I am glad EU broke Apple Store and allowed emulation, but in reality I do not see how it was monopolistic. If you do not like it you can buy Android phone or GrapheneOS phone or create your own phone. The gaming console market AFAIK works this way, console makers charge game developers to release games on their platform and probably charge a cut on their online store which is exclusive.
This is known as late stage capitalism. Few rule the market and no one wants to enter the market to compete against them. Funny, this is how the game of Monopoly works. Everyone starts equally but if you play long enough in the end 1 guy owns all.
as for skeuomorphism, I do not get the criticism. It worked great IMO. Friendly and easy.
This is known as late stage capitalism. Few rule the market and no one wants to enter the market to compete against them. Funny, this is how the game of Monopoly works. Everyone starts equally but if you play long enough in the end 1 guy owns all.
as for skeuomorphism, I do not get the criticism. It worked great IMO. Friendly and easy.
Then get on a platform that has the innovation you want. Don’t buy a civic and complain it’s not fast as Tesla plaid and that Honda should innovate more.
In your opinion only.
The rest of the post is subjective.
Since you do not play any of Epic's games, it's not an issue for you.
And why is it an issue for you at all? If you don't like seller that sells your desired, just buy other apps from sellers you do like? Where's the bloody issue?
👉 If you don't like a store, go shop somewhere else!
Just buy from a different store to get what you want.
But no, some like you insist they're entitled to buy everything from on single particular store.
And had Apple not been so greedy and overcontrolling, this regulation could easily have been averted. They could have reviewed apps for security issues and to protect against obvious scams and allowed Spotify and Epicto communicate with their customers in-app and accept the same payment methods of choice in their app that they allow Uber. And happily offer their supposedly superior In-app-purchasing system and/or Apple Pay on competitive terms.
This legislation would have never picked up the legislatorial steam that it did, and Apple, Epic, Spotify and the "I want everything from one store" crowd would all happily get along.
Even if 50 million nitwits did that, it will still be peanuts to Epic.hopefully millions will do the same
In case you haven’t been following Apple, they are not a company to roll the dice. (Ie “open” up the App Store and hope that legislation the likes of the DMA will never come to fruition because of their largesse.)
Apple should be greedy within the law. And as a consumer if you don’t like it, there are literally hundreds of cell phone manufacturers who will take your $$$. If you don’t like the product in any way shape or form, exercise your right as a consumer.
You are 100% wrong,imo if only apple had made the App Store into a public utility earlier the DMA would have never happened. As we have seen there would have been some regulation against American tech that would have been equally as bad.
At least in the US TOS are enforceable. For instance you cannot sue Tesla for a lemon law. When you bought the car you agree to arbitration - even if you didn’t read the sentence specifically.Well would you agree with Disney’s TOS?
His wife is kind of childish wouldn’t you say, he should have signed that ToS
The reason it says Piccolo must be compelled to arbitrate? A clause in the terms and conditions he signed off on when he created a Disney+ account for a monthlong trial in 2019.
Disney says man can't sue over wife's death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service
Disney says man can't sue over wife's death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service
Jeffrey J. Piccolo filed a wrongful death lawsuit after his wife, Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan, died after she consumed food containing allergens at a restaurant in Disney World.
What Apple said during the Epic trial clearly didn't go down well with developers, but I find it hard to disagree with the essence of what was communicated. Developers do owe Apple. For creating the modern App Store model. For getting users to trust the purchase process (which is the reason their apps even sold in the first place) at a time when malware and viruses were rife on PCs.
When the iOS App Store was first available, 30% was considered a godsend when developers were lucky to keep 30% of app revenue (compared to the 70% then, which has never changed). Nobody at the time thought that Apple was doing developers a disservice. And now Apple is somehow the villain for continuing to play by the exact same set of rules since 2008?
Was Apple rent-seeking at a time when it had single-digit market share? What about 2010 when the iPad was first introduced? 2015? 2020? When did the closed ecosystem so beloved by iOS users and developers, as well as Apple's 30% cut, become a supposed threat to both sides?
In a world where are literally dozens of different android handsets available, what is the logic of trying to make the only different smartphone (ie: iPhone) be more like the dozens of other android handsets which can probably give you all the freedom you want (and then some?).
This is your idea of meaningful competition?!?
"I'll waste my time in the hope to waste theirs, even if this thing did not affect me personally" Great logic here.