It is a free market. Anyone could make a phone just like Apple and put in App Store in it. You could buy any phone you want. Well in the USA you can’t buy Huawei, but that’s because of our government.
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Fortnite's Return to iOS in the UK Uncertain as Epic Games Criticizes 'Weak' Apple Regulations
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Are UK iOS kids pissed that their “favourite” game won’t return to App Store as initially planned? Besides, I kind of wonder how many kids nowadays even care about Fortnite.
I don’t get what Epic is trying to cry foul this time but 🤷.
I don’t get what Epic is trying to cry foul this time but 🤷.
Where is the regulation on this scumbag and his predatory monetization of children? This guys greed knows no bounds.
Except it’s to satiate the big players demand cause those big players hold big cash, that can swing a nation easily at whatever direction they desire. Welcome to America.
Calling Tim Sweeney's company Epic is a contradiction of terms unless it refers to how annoying he can be 
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Epic is the unethical company, proven in court
Surprise surprise. Tim "Give Me An Inch And I'll Happily Take Everything Else" Sweeny is once again trying to freeload off of Apple's intellectual property. Epic is such a sleezy company and Sweeney needs to be taken to a back alley somewhere.
I'm sure in the next few days we'll hear from his fellow freeloader Daniel Ek/Spotify, happily parroting Epic's line of bs.
I'm sure in the next few days we'll hear from his fellow freeloader Daniel Ek/Spotify, happily parroting Epic's line of bs.
I'm still waiting for Fortnite to allow people to freely upload skins and other in-game purchases. After all, they believe in open platforms, right?
Oh, really, it’s about competition? So, in how many stores can Fortnite be bought once the epic store has opened?
I usually don’t tend to side with the nonsense my government does but in this case I am happy if it makes Tim cry a bit more.
The world revolves around you, we know /s
It’s still one of the biggest games in the world. Just because you don’t know anyone who plays it doesn’t mean anything.
Ahhh Fortnite not coming to the UK is good news. No thousands of kids waiting in the lobby for hours after getting headshot by a Russian 9 year old immediately after being airdropped.
I don’t get why these round-based games are so popular. Between the micropayments and goods trading and the fact you don’t spend much time actually playing the game, why bother? It’s textbook garbage.
I don’t get why these round-based games are so popular. Between the micropayments and goods trading and the fact you don’t spend much time actually playing the game, why bother? It’s textbook garbage.
It’s a lot of people that don’t play anymore. That’s just fact sorry the world doesn’t revolve on you either.
I'm hoping we've had Apple's App store long enough now that when the side loading begins people finally realise why the App store is a good thing and in their interests.
Out of the 10% of the fortnite users back in 2020 using iOS, how many are actually concerned now? I'd say none of them.
I had children playing fortnite on iOS, they just started playing something else.
Remember those 10 year olds then are 15 year olds now, interested in other things like hoodies and electric bikes, not getting killed by a headshot as soon as they land because of the lag to Epic's servers on their phones.
I had children playing fortnite on iOS, they just started playing something else.
Remember those 10 year olds then are 15 year olds now, interested in other things like hoodies and electric bikes, not getting killed by a headshot as soon as they land because of the lag to Epic's servers on their phones.
While I’m not backing Sweeney up here, I do agree with his sentiments in this case.
The UK are taking the p*** with their grips of control recently. We are slowly losing our freedoms here and Orwell’s 1984 has never felt so real.
The UK are taking the p*** with their grips of control recently. We are slowly losing our freedoms here and Orwell’s 1984 has never felt so real.
Would love to have not only that but to oblige game developers to make small landing pages with all their games available for every platform, so for example if you buy a game for PS5 and then decide to sell the console and buy Xbox, you will not have to purchase same game again. Literally same for PC games.
I don’t care how they implement it but it is how it should be. For example I go on their website, I buy a game and get a direct link to download it on Switch, PS, Xbox, Mac or PC. That’s it. I guess EU will understand that this is a problem sooner than in 10 or 20 years from now
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To be fair we could level the exact same complaint at Tim Cook.
Apple actively choose the side of their shareholders and try to bury these rulings under bureacracy in an effort to make it as difficult as possilble for developers to make any other choice.
Apple could have chosen to rid themselves of 100% of their international litigation by just bringing the iPhone (and iPad) up to software installation parity with the Mac and be done with it. They could have implemented the per-app installation permission Android has, stopped Safari from being able to sideload apps (and thus be hijacked into doing so) and only allow it from Files. They could lock sideloading behind a software switch that only activates after an hour if need be.
But they chose not to for a reason and its not to help users or developers in any way.
if the app is side-loaded there is nothing Apple can do; "lifting the finger" will not change anything. It means you have to run a virus scanner, all the time in the background. Just look at Windows-Defender; the issues it causes and how little (none?) security it actually adds.
I'd rather prefer the walled garden. And if you don't like it - then don't buy Apple. There are more than enough others.
If you read the DMA’s roadmap, you’ll see they intend to prioritize exactly the sort of “malicious compliance” that Sweeney insists Apple will engage in if he doesn’t get his own store. They are fully aware of both what Apple has been doing and what other governments have been doing.
Epic will never be happy short of that (having their own store) — but for the rest of us, it’s the quality of Apple’s compliance that is the main problem.
Epic will never be happy short of that (having their own store) — but for the rest of us, it’s the quality of Apple’s compliance that is the main problem.
Two things @SoldOnApple
1) the UK is not part of the EU, hence this article is similar but not identical to eu regulation.
2) there are five main providers of games consoles, Apple, Google, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. It’s unlikely, as there are FIVE players in the market, that the EU would treat this as monopolistic behaviour.