1. I didn't say I did that. I'm describing what others have done.
2. So you're saying that without the help of people who rated it 1 star, it wouldn't have been the most popular app? If so, fortnite's popularity has severely crashed. 🤣
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2. So you're saying that without the help of people who rated it 1 star, it wouldn't have been the most popular app? If so, fortnite's popularity has severely crashed. 🤣
it's not. concept is ripped off. the concept itself isn't all that fun. characters are completely forgettable so much that they need help from licensing other characters to keep the content appealing.
Just so people here understand, I have linked to the Rogers decision in the initial court case, and a verge article, extrapolating for the purpose of clarity.
1. https://storage.courtlistener.com/r...d.364265/gov.uscourts.cand.364265.812.0_3.pdf
2. https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/12/...alez-rogers-final-ruling-injunction-breakdown
1. https://storage.courtlistener.com/r...d.364265/gov.uscourts.cand.364265.812.0_3.pdf
2. https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/12/...alez-rogers-final-ruling-injunction-breakdown
If the court ruled in apple’s favor
Then why is epic back on the
USA iOS App Store
Because as the individual said Apple could not come up with a legal reason as to keep them off the app store
To be fair multiple stores on a games console would be horrific. It's bad enough on a gaming PC where you can move around more easily.
You'd THINK choice was better, but it's not choice it's fragmentation. It's like having 15 different streaming services, it's not choice it's having one show you like on each platform and now you've got to pay for them individually and manage different apps.
Perhaps you should read the original court decision, where it was decided that Apple had the right to remove Epic from the store. Currently, Judge Rogers, has held Apple in contempt, and that case is awaiting further 'discovery' and 'appeals' process, and Apple maintain that they 'are' allowed to keep Epic from their store. That judge, Gonzalez Rogers asked why Apple was still blocking Fortnite without an order from the appeals court authorizing that action.
Apple then chose to discuss this issue with Epic, and they reached an agreement.
Now add to the UK App Store too please!
I'm not sure why Epic doesn't provide Fortnite as a direct download for macOS as, at least for now, macOS allows third-party apps to be installed not using the App Store.
I'm not sure why Epic doesn't provide Fortnite as a direct download for macOS as, at least for now, macOS allows third-party apps to be installed not using the App Store.
If as you claim that Apple reached an agreement with epic
Then why are certain apple users angry
About it then if the owner of the platform has put them back on?
The information is out there, perhaps go read it. Here's one to get ou started; https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/n...tore/507-afae50f9-f87d-41b0-bb91-b801a23e424d
You can already do that more or less. Ubisoft, EA are already kind-of doing. But even if: For consumers it's fantastic.
You know fine well that apple don’t want them back on the USA iOS App Store
No matter what is put out there
Because as apple’s lawyer said
Epic would see no consequences of this ruling
I did the same thing. 5 stars well deserved for what I am concerned.
That you stifled the work a company did, to create an environment for developers to place their apps, and allowed a company like Epic, to market and distribute their app, as a free of charge app, costing Epic the $99 a year fee, to bully them into change.
Well done. Here's hoping your ilk, don't create anything you wish to sell, because watch out, their's freeloaders out there...
Which is why the idea that every Epic and every streaming service should „build their own platform“ is nonsense.
Which is also why few mobile platforms (iOS/App Store and Android/Play Services & Store) that consumers and developers have converged upon should not be allowed to do, charge and restrict competition „as they please“.
Regardless of whether or not they created their respective platforms or not.
And regardless of whether they hold 30% or 50% of marketshare.
Apple‘s rates were found supracompetitive (they charge much more than in a competitive market).
Their non-steering rules are anticompetitive.
And let‘s look at reality:
They made many (of the largest) developers that account for a large part of such digital transactions not offer such transactions through or from their apps at all.
👉 When Kindle or Spotify users can easily access purchasing options that Apple forced them to hide from, that is a large gain in consumer benefit.
…after Apple had been more or (rather) less subtle ordered by the court to explain themselves in court should they not come to one.
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You understanding of law, as demonstrated in your many, quite illiterate posts, is utterly flawed, and non existent. Why you have a United States District Court of North California logo, as your avatar, is beyond me.
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Mature like withholding a global update because they were banned in the US store due to their own actions?
Ad hominem attacks refer „to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks … some … attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself“
But I stand by my assessment - as is also shared by some media - that Apple was "pressured" into readmitting Fortnite into the store. Which contrasts with your claim of "reaching an agreement after discussions".
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The App Store needs to separate these fremium games from free games because its impossible for small devs to get visibility in the rankings with them grouped the same.
