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Fortnite Takes Top Spot on App Store Charts
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Apple probably counting the missing dollars as we speak.
"Maybe we were too greedy demanding 30% for doing virtually nothing... Nah, everyone else is wrong. We at Apple are never wrong!"
"Maybe we were too greedy demanding 30% for doing virtually nothing... Nah, everyone else is wrong. We at Apple are never wrong!"
Must be his way of coping with reality.
Wowzers.
I can't believe how personally over invested folks get in stuff like this.
None of this impacts any of us in the slightest, either way 🫠
I'm just here for all the people seething over an app they can choose to ignore.
I don't know if this will last forever and I don't even play Fortnite.
Buy I enjoy every second they're rubbing salt into the wounds of incorrigible anti-choicers and monopoly apologists.
The first bricks have been knocked out of the wall. 🥳
And they won't be the last. Brazil likely being next. 🇧🇷
On May 21th Epic Games returned Fortnite to the Apple App Store.
And it gave us hope that 2034 won't be like '1984.'
#goepic #timsweeneyliberator #sweeneyforpresident
Buy I enjoy every second they're rubbing salt into the wounds of incorrigible anti-choicers and monopoly apologists.
The first bricks have been knocked out of the wall. 🥳
And they won't be the last. Brazil likely being next. 🇧🇷
On May 21th Epic Games returned Fortnite to the Apple App Store.
And it gave us hope that 2034 won't be like '1984.'
#goepic #timsweeneyliberator #sweeneyforpresident
Fortnite and epic games are largely irrelevant. It's just a proxy battle for a bigger picture; which is the state of apple's walled garden.
Some people like watching it being torn down; and some people are vehement defenders of it.
The game likely made a lot of money for Apple and is a good showcase for the hardware capabilities of the iPhone, but...
It's a love-hate relationship.
Apple wanted a 30% cut for transactions that had nothing to do with them. Epic didn't agree.
when you are on the appstore, transactions go through the appstore anyway, so the 30% is mandatory.
so why did they have to ban them? if epic didn't agree but kept the game up , every purchase would still go partially in apple pockets. if they didn't publish it because of it...well, no need to ban.
i just dont get the ban
You can’t have a “monopoly” apologist for something that is not a monopoly.
You pay for the hardware, not the software. Apple reserves the right to operate it how they want. There is a much bigger picture here than what you’re suggesting.
Yup. As much as apple would want to deny it; they benefit from the app being available. Even if they didn't make another cent off the IAPs.
😲
This can't be right. Based remarks from Apple apologists on this forum, Fortnite's time was done and it is no longer relevant.
It is a shame that Apple is so petty they still won't allow the game in other regions; they literally do the minimum required by law/court order.
Apple clearly had a monopoly for distribution of iOS and ("digital") in-app transactions to iOS users.
I have a reasonable expectation to use the software.
They do and they can. Within the limits of law.
I want to sell items in Fortnite. Can I do this and direct users to my payment system so that Epic gets nothing?
Hosting isn't free and Apple shouldn't have to eat the cost of running the App Store for free apps with in-app purchases. What if there was a per-download charge for free apps with in-app purchases that are handled outside the App Store? All other terms remain as-is. That would keep developers from freeloading on the App Store hosting while making money outside the system.
Taking top spot makes it rather relevant thou
No different to a car crash, people will always stop to have a look.
Just hours after Fortnite returned to the U.S. App Store, the game made it to the top of the App Store charts. As of right now, Fortnite is the number one free game.
