Hundreds of iPhones With Fortnite Installed Flood eBay

[SevenSeas]

You get what you pay for ... in this case you’re buying sadness.

 

[Thor Lancaster]

With Apple's absolute monopoly on software distribution, iPhone buyers should have known all along that something like this was going to happen.

 

[Shirasaki]

if you spend that much money for a game you deserve to be poor

Gacha game player shows middle fingers to similar comments.
(No offence to any person, just comments)

 

[Pentium]

Can't get more stupid than this!

 

[GadgetBen]

Surely you would want it on the iPad not iPhone?

Deleted it off mine yesterday! 😅

 

[Abazigal]

I thought that when Apple pulls an app from the App Store then it will no longer launch or run so this makes no sense to me.
Am I wrong?
Please correct me if I am.

The app still runs. You just can’t locate it on the App Store to download.

 

[calstanford]

People are really f... stupid. I have no hope left.

 

[sirozha]

Yes you would! If you sign out of that phone all the apps are de-authorized. It's something that you need to do on your phone when you are selling/trading it at a store. Even if the binary is there you can't run it unless your account has the purchase for it. If your account has the purchase on it then just re-download it from the App Store. It's not for sale anymore but it's available for download.

That’s incorrect. The app won’t be able to upgrade but it will work when you are signed in with a different Apple ID.
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Yes you would! If you sign out of that phone all the apps are de-authorized. It's something that you need to do on your phone when you are selling/trading it at a store. Even if the binary is there you can't run it unless your account has the purchase for it. If your account has the purchase on it then just re-download it from the App Store. It's not for sale anymore but it's available for download.

That’s incorrect. The app won’t be able to upgrade but it will work when you are signed in with a different Apple ID.

 

[Ruggy]

I mentioned this to my kids yesterday-not playing Fortnite myself.
The two that play Fortnite said it isn't surprising because Fortnight is almost dead and no one is playing it anymore.
It seems they are increasingly giving away stuff from inside the game and still no one is interested.
It would explain a lot.

 

[Seoras]

Hate to tell everyone but the days of walled-garden stores are on the way out. Apple, Google and other are going to pay through the nose eventually.

The only people who want to pull down the wall around the garden are the ones the wall is meant to keep out.
You're standing alone with the undesirables there.

 

[the8thark]

I guess you still can't fix stupid...

I guess you still can't fix Epic Games . . . oh wait, that's the exact same thing as you said above.

 

[nickgovier]

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[scaramoosh]

Because Fortnite isn't available on any other platform.

 

[pasamio]

Why is it stupid to list an old phone with Fortnite on eBay? It costs nothing to list, and almost certainly won't be sold, but if it is, maybe you make hundreds of dollars? It's just a free lottery ticket.

Unless you're calling the people buying these phones stupid, but that appears to be nobody at all so far.

If they haven't fully wiped the device, because of course then it wouldn't have Fortnite, then there is a chance that it is connected to the original owners Apple account and could be used to hijack it. If the device was setup for the 2FA, they could use it to initiate a password reset to fully take over the sellers Apple account. They had to be logged in to download it but who knows what else might be on the phone to find.

 

[the8thark]

Delete

 

[the8thark]

Why is it stupid to list an old phone with Fortnite on eBay?

If they haven't fully wiped the device, because of course then it wouldn't have Fortnite, then there is a chance that it is connected to the original owners Apple account and could be used to hijack it.

This is where the stupid part comes into it. Only an idiot would sell a phone that's not factory reset.

 

[camilasaunder89]

It's not worth it. It is not going to work forever.

 

[ani4ani]

I mentioned this to my kids yesterday-not playing Fortnite myself.
The two that play Fortnite said it isn't surprising because Fortnight is almost dead and no one is playing it anymore.
It seems they are increasingly giving away stuff from inside the game and still no one is interested.
It would explain a lot.

only 350 million registered players as of May 20, 100 million more than the prior year?

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

So this is what the human race has come to...

 

[alchemistmuffin]

I hope everyone buying Fortnite installed phones are going to regret this when Apple turns on the KILL SWITCH to remotely delete the app.

(And yes, iOS and iPadOS and even. macOS has app deleting KILL SWITCH since 2008, mainly for malicious apps but also it can, and will be used for apps that blatantly violate Apple Devs TOS, such as this one)

 

[braddick]

Can you imagine an iPhone with both Flappy Bird and Fortnite installed on it? I honestly think it would explode.

 

[votdfak]

I can sell you jailbroken X.

edit: of course I wouldn't sell... just kidding

 

[ani4ani]

So this is what the human race has come to...

..sadly, this is the human race on one of its' better days

 

[baryon]

Serious question: when you buy an iPhone with specific software like this pre-installed, doesn't that mean you will be logged into some random person's account and they could potentially remotely lock the phone whenever they like? So you can't use this phone for anything other than just playing fortnight and whatever else is installed, without knowing how long it will keep working for?

 

[mrcloaked]

This seems exaggerated.